Ed McBain Quotes
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.Ed McBain
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
Mackenzie Davis -
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox -
It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
Gabrielle Reece -
You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
Barry Sanders -
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
F. Lee Bailey
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
Daniel Bryan -
Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
Mahesh Babu -
I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
Larry David -
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
Frederik Pohl -
That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.
Elvis Mitchell -
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.
Jean-Francois Cope
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In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers.
Paul Watson -
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
Ken Burns -
Fortunately, I have always played a lot of sports, so I keep my lungs in good shape. That translates to singing as well.
Bria Skonberg -
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
Jeffrey Kluger -
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
Alison Jackson -
I am so broad and big-structured that even two kilos on me can look like gaining 10 kilos, and losing two kilos can also look like shedding 10 kilos.
Arjun Kapoor
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Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
Madame de Stael -
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
Steve Earle -
The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.
Daniel Hannan -
I don't believe in an interventionist God...
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!
Matthew Quick -
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
Ed McBain