Ed McBain Quotes
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
Madeleine Stowe -
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
Imran Khan -
I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra -
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James -
Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
Rachele Brooke Smith -
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
Ian Smith -
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
Samaire Armstrong -
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
S. Ansky -
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
AJ McLean -
I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
Salma Hayek -
My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
Patricia Heaton
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I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.
Dagmara Dominczyk -
You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
Larry Page -
Music has always been around with me.
Eddie Murphy -
The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
Felix Frankfurter -
The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
Kurt Bills -
I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
Philip Roth
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Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.
David S. Goyer -
Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
Richard Thaler -
Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
It's especially important to make sure all clients are happy. You don't want to get stuck into a corner and for people to think you now only have one look.
Coco Rocha -
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
Ed McBain