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Harvey Pekar Quotes

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

Harvey Pekar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

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Morning Day Wake Up Cold Sweat Said

Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.

Jimmie Johnson

Chance House White White House Few

Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.

Mel Gibson

Home Think You Dark Nice Kind

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Robert Nozick

Ideas Interesting Philosophy Bold

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

Steve Earle

Me I Can Way Out Anything Get

People used to respect royalty to an insane extent that doesn't exist nowadays. These people never shouted. They never moved, really. Their effort was minimum. They were the most powerful people, but they were just calm.

Sofia Boutella

Respect Effort People Calm Powerful

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

Rob Dyrdek

Work Competition Skateboarding Away

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Think Back Go Where Us Going

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

Julia Child

Cooking World Feel You Rules Follow

My dad was an actor, and he made it all seem quite magical. It felt like a slightly subversive thing, telling stories, when all of my other friends' parents were builders or bank clerks. It's always seemed quite magical to me.

Johnny Flynn

Parents Me Friends Actor Bank Seem

Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that's half the battle.

Johnny Iuzzini

Battle Baking You Organized Half

I don't have a huge acting background at all.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Acting Background Huge

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

Bobby Thomson

Air Through Corps