Ed McBain Quotes
It always rains on Mondays anyway. Monday is the bitchingest day in the week and should be struck completely from the calendar.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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Katy Perry still gets me every time. She's very funny in person! We met at the Teen Choice Awards and she pulled my cheeks apart and told me how cute I was. My life was literally flashing before my eyes!
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A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
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For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
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I'm not one of those people who write all the time. Sometimes I'll go several months without writing anything. I'll sometimes second guess myself and wonder if I'll ever write another song.
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In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.
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We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service.
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The practice of giving an A transports your relationships from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility... This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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One time, I was posing on a car for a calendar shoot. I was doused with oil and literally slid off the car, bikini, heels and all!
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I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
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But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
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We're not going to do something that isn't good for us or the teams, we like the 22-race calendar (but) we're fine with a 21-race calendar.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
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If you wanna burn us to the ground make sure that I’ll never come back around. You’re doing it right. If you wanna tear my heart in two make me never able want to think about you. You’re doing it right.
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It always rains on Mondays anyway. Monday is the bitchingest day in the week and should be struck completely from the calendar.
