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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Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.
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My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?
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I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
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The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
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I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.
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Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
