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Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear. — Bobby Darin

All writers have their own pet commandments. — Darin Strauss

I have come to love you in spite of
Do I want to be loved in spite of? ... Does anyone? — Darin Strauss

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom. — Darin Strauss

I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them. — Darin Strauss

We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand. — Darin Strauss

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. — Bobby Darin

Imagine The Greatest Hits of Bobby Darin minus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you. — Haruki Murakami

The muffling blanket would fall over my thoughts. — Darin Strauss

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend. — Wayne Newton

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans. — Bobby Darin

I didn't understand the living fascination with a world of perfected dead. — Darin Bradley

What you did is right. — Darin Bradley

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how. — Bobby Darin

Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one. — Darin Strauss

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy. — Darin Strauss

His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them. — Darin Strauss

Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy. — Darin Erstad

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time. — Kevin Spacey

All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin. — Wayne Newton

We wouldn't steal, which was paranoia- we would take, which was force. — Darin Bradley

A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on. — Bobby Darin

You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy. — Bobby Darin

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny. — Bobby Darin

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture. — Darin Strauss

I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian. — Bobby Darin

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer. — Bobby Darin

My training and my inclination is to invent. — Darin Strauss

I dazzle you with that footwork. — Bobby Darin

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25. — Bobby Darin

I'm really wary of self-help books. — Darin Strauss

My entire life has been a lie. — Bobby Darin

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master. — Bobby Darin

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason. — Darin Strauss

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it. — Bobby Darin

I don't want to be able to see the audience. — Bobby Darin

Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh. — Darin Strauss

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. — Bobby Darin

I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives. — Darin Strauss

Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world. — Bobby Darin

My whole life has been a lie. — Bobby Darin

Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law. — Darin Strauss

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them. — Darin Strauss

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents. — Bobby Darin

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain. — Bobby Darin

Self-hate is rarely unconditional. — Darin Strauss

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere. — Bobby Darin

Diminish the influence of fate — Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other. — Darin Strauss

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer. — Bobby Darin

What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city. — Darin Strauss

The sky had dropped a curtain on the sun. — Darin Strauss

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life. — Bobby Darin

George Burns was the father I never had. — Bobby Darin

It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it. — Darin Strauss

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range. — Bobby Darin

Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did. — Michael Buble

I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone. — Bobby Darin

I suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that. — Darin Strauss

The detective had a kidnapping, he had a knife and he had blood. He had an insane old man. He was going in. — Darin Gibby

We weren't violent then. There is a difference between paint and not. — Darin Bradley

My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock. — Darin Strauss

We were most amused by destroying what we'd taken. — Darin Bradley

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol. — Bobby Darin

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. — Bobby Darin

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left? — Bobby Darin

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. — Bobby Darin

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his. — Bobby Darin

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult. — Darin Strauss

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure. — Darin Strauss

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen. — Shannon L. Alder

Things don't go away. They become you. — Darin Strauss

Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate. — Darin Strauss

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking. — Bobby Darin

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling. — Darin Strauss

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of. — Darin Strauss

If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction? — Darin Strauss

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start. — Bobby Darin

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers. — Bobby Vinton

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did. — Bobby Darin

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. — Darin Strauss

The thing about oracles is that they talk back. — Darin Bradley

We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough. — Darin Strauss

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots. — Darin Strauss

People say I was made for this
Nothin' else would I trade for this
And just think I get paid for this... — Bobby Darin

Because we are now "temples" of God, we are now supposed to live differently from the rest of humanity. — Darin Bowler

I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you. — Bobby Darin

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting. — Bobby Darin

Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort. — Darin Erstad

What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? — Darin Strauss

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened. — Darin Strauss

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines. — Darin Strauss

Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists. — Darin Strauss

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son. — Bobby Darin

This marriage is no one's business but our own. — Bobby Darin

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. — Bobby Darin

The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex. — Bobby Darin

Little Sandra Dee isn't supposed to smoke, you know. Or drink. Or breathe." - Sandra Dee, the actress — Dodd Darin

I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories. — Darin Strauss

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter. — Darin Strauss