Ernest Bramah Quotes
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
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A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
