Edmund Crispin Quotes
I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.
Quotes to Explore
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.
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I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.
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I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.
