Eric Partridge Quotes
To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Most men are fragile.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
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I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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I'm more of a Smithwick's or Bulmer's girl than a pint of Guinness.
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In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the 'cancer' that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.
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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
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Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
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Everything’s been about the journey, I never really set out with goals for fighting; it’s been about the adventure along the way. When you’re on your death bed, it’s those stories, those little adventures that are going to be the things that you remember. It’s not so much getting there, but how you got there.
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To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.
