Calvin Trillin Quotes
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.Calvin Trillin
Quotes to Explore
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
Sam Underwood -
At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
Sally Yates -
The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
Najib Razak -
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
Laura Fraser -
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko -
Robots are good at things that are structured.
Vijay Kumar
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
Floyd Skloot -
I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
Brown Campbell -
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
Madeleine Stowe -
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
Orville Wright -
I'm not politically correct.
Kary Mullis -
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
Samantha Shannon -
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith -
Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
Tahl Raz -
I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
Natasha Lyonne -
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
Laura Marling -
Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.
Charles Comiskey -
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
L. Ron Hubbard -
We have so much data on the web, almost all of it available for free, that we dive into the the data ocean hoping that magically awesome things will follow. They never do.
Avinash Kaushik -
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
Walter Raleigh -
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini -
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
Calvin Trillin