Calvin Trillin Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
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Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
