Ed McBain Quotes
The weekend is not a good time for dying, you should never die anytime between Friday evening and Monday morning. Wednesday is the best day for dying except in some towns in Connecticut where even the barber shops are closed on Wednesday.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
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I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
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I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.
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I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.
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I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.
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My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
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A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.
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I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the idea that the perpetuated story of Aquaman is that he only has powers in water, and he talks to fish. I think it's the idea of him in the middle of a city just doesn't make a lot of sense to people. It's just the character itself.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
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I love doing movies that touch people's lives.
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Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'
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The weekend is not a good time for dying, you should never die anytime between Friday evening and Monday morning. Wednesday is the best day for dying except in some towns in Connecticut where even the barber shops are closed on Wednesday.
