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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The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
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By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.
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I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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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.
