Eddie Condon Quotes
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
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The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.
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When issues emerge that might harm a campaign, like the Clinton e-mails, you have to get all the facts out right away, but not before you have all the facts.
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The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.
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Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
