Ed McBain Quotes
These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
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Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that's a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely.
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Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
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Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.
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It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.
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Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years... it's called cash.
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
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These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.
