"Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop."

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Source : Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.

Edward Burns

#Dad Quotes #Cop Quotes #My Dad Quotes

“I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.”
“You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.”
“There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive”
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
“All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.”
“International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP section in the front, looking for the Story: the Most Macheteing Deathest, Most Treasury Corruptest, Most Entrail-Eating Civil Warest, Most Crocodile-Grinning Dictatorest, MOst Heart-Wrenching and Genociding Pulitzerest, Most Black Big-Eyed Oxfam Child Starvingest, Most Wild African Savages Having AIDS-Ridden Sexest with Genetically Mutilatedest Girls...The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest story they can find...”
“Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.”
“Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!”

Source : moss hart (1959). “act one”

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