Ed McBain Quotes
Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
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Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
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What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
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For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.
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Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
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Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
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Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
