Ed McBain Quotes
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair of chainsaw operator's earmuffs.
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I exercise every day. I don't get up and have a cup of coffee anymore, I get up and move to get blood to my brain.
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Coffee isn't just a source of pleasure for me: it is something I rely on to get me through the day.
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I personally believe that I was... a previous life or something... a previous reincarnation, a bard of some sort, because most of the things I write about are descriptions of places I've never been to.
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I’m getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.
