Ed McBain Quotes
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'
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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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McKinty is an exciting new talent.