Mick Ebeling Quotes
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
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'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
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Jump and the net will appear.
