Edward G. Robinson Quotes
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.
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I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.
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I have so many gay friends that I love.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
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I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.
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I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.
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I said to a girl I'd been seeing, come home with me, honey, and I'll show you where it's at. She said, You'd better, because the last time I could'nt find it.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
