Ian Eagle Quotes
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.
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Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.
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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
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I see what keeps people young: work!
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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
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I try not to read reviews, but if it's a really important review or somebody sends it to me, I'll read it. It's really interesting when you read a review of yourself, you see this weird reflected image - it's like looking a funhouse mirror. Like, "It's sort of me, but is my neck really that elongated?" Sometimes it's vaguely embarrassing what people think of you. When I was in Italy doing this press-interview day, this guy asked me, "Are you a tortured soul?" It's embarrassing to have somebody think you're a tortured soul, or that you think of yourself as a tortured soul.
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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
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As a kid I said 'Bob Costas went to Syracuse, I'm going to Syracuse'
