Mike McDermott quotes

“If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.”
-- Mike McDermott

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“It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money,”
-- Mike McDermott

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“You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.”
-- Mike McDermott

#Sheep Quotes #Skins Quotes

“At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.”

“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”

“This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.”

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”

“Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.”

“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”

“Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.”

“I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.”

“I spent 24 and a half years in prison”