J. D. Salinger Quotes
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't do negative things.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
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I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
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War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
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We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath.
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Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
