Richard Chizmar Quotes

My neighborhood was like 'The Wonder Years.' We played until 10 o'clock at night. We used to tell scary stories. I was the one scaring them. We used to play football by this place called the Myer's House. It was a big, spooky house with the gables; we'd hang out there and scare each other.

Richard Chizmar

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I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

Joe Namath

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When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.

Joe Frazier

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Lots of opera singers are just boring.

Anna Netrebko

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If you have the wind farms but no transmission, you just have things blowing in the wind.

Matt Mead

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When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Tom Waits

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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Javier Bardem

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The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

Dick Van Patten

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The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.

Chevy Chase

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What you don't do is as important as what you do.

Christie Hefner

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You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Brian De Palma

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Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.

Bruce Forsyth

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I asked my designer friend, Sam Klemick, to make a headdress for me, drawing inspiration from 1920s headpieces, Athena and Joan of Arc. Before each show, I have this quiet meditative moment where I put the headdress on and gather my thoughts and strength.

Sydney Wayser

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