Harry Houdini Quotes
The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.
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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
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I always liked the intensity of the recording.
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I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.
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Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
Colson Whitehead -
I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.
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There are certain teams in the NFL that have a certain aura about them, and there's a certain respect level about them.
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The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.
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You need to keep looking forward; don't ever look back.
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The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
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I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
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I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
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A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
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Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit.
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After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.
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Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.
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Given the importance of Washington, outsiders probably have an unrealistic perspective on how large the city is. The fact is, Washington D.C. is a small town, and most everyone knows most everyone else. That person of the other party who you despise will someday be at your daughter's birthday party.
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And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.
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The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
