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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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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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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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
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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 don’t have all the answers. I don’t know anyone who does. But this is certain: too many people have lost their lives who shouldn’t have.
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Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.
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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.
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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.
