Earl Derr Biggers Quotes
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.
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The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!
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Personally, I think people need to get over this 'being offended' thing. Being offended does not give you the right to silence people. I get offended by things all the time - it's just part of life. The right not to be offended is not a human right, especially in a democracy.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
