David Foster Wallace Quotes
Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
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Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
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I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
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If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.
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I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
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Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
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I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people - brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.
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Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave
