Edward Bunker Quotes
During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.
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All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.
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During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.
