Boardwalks Quotes

• I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Girl, Riding, Nowhere To Go

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• Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  Mark Twain

  Witty, Truth, Deep Thought

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• When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.

  Mary Matalin

  People, House, Boardwalk Empire

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• I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster love comes from the fact that it took a really long time for me to reach the height requirement, so I promised myself very early on that when I reach that, I will not take it for granted.

  Melissa Rauch

  Thinking, Games, Long

  "Talking About Carnivals with Melissa Rauch". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on "Boardwalk," because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.

  Jack Huston

  Girlfriend, Character, Long

  "Jack Huston on Playing ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Masked Fan Favorite Richard Harrow and Making Peace With the Possibility of Getting Killed Off". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.indiewire.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

  David Blaine

  Islands, Rope, Saws

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?

  Al Capone

  Needs, Down And, Baths

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• I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Towns, Fraud, Bits

  "Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 15, 2017.

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• I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

  Al Seckel

  Weekend, Cities, California

  "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.

  Tom Ford

  Men, Feet, Knowing

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• [I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk Empire - that's another period of government overreach, but at least they use the amendment process! In real life, the executive branch, by violating the Constitution, is using statutes in place of constitutional amendments to diminish our liberty.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Games

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• I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Horse, Fun, Book

  "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Fundraising, Presidential

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• The only time I've ever been mistaken for someone else is - and this arguable still - when a person came up to me on the boardwalk of Ocean City, New Jersey and said, "You look a lot like that guy from computer ads" and I said, "There is a reason because I am that guy," and the guy looked at me for a minute, laughed and said, "That's a funny joke, but you really do look like him." He thought I was not me.

  John Hodgman

  Ocean, Cities, Guy

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly.

  Stephen Fry

  Butterfly, Names, Brave

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.

  Mark Richard

  Mom, Brother, Real

  Mark Richard (2013). “The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories”, p.54, Anchor

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• There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

  Michael Shannon

  Secret, Routine, Empires

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• At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.

  Chris Burden

  Two, Venice, Wire

  Chris Burden, Alberta College of Art. Gallery (1976). “Chris Burden, February 18, 1976”

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• I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.

  Terence Winter

  War, Book, Thinking

  "Tricks of the trade from Broadwalk Empire creator Terence Winter" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. August 30, 2011.

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• I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on Boardwalk Empire.

  Vincent Piazza

  Jobs, Style, Littles

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• The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

  John Cusack

  Beach, Talking, Years

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• I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.

  Chris Messina

  Style, Actors, World

  "Chris Messina Talks Ruby Sparks, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Argo, the Mindy Project, Damages, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from each other. Puffing hard, Rondus cut through a gazebo and started down the stairs to the field. Only a few steps behind, Doren went airborne and slammed into the heavyset satyr. Together they pitched violently forward into the grass, staining their skin green.

  Brandon Mull

  Cutting, Skins, Together

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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