Don McLean Quotes
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
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I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.
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I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.
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Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.
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Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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I just want to be known as funny.
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We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
