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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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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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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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it.
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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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Jump and the net will appear.
