Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
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You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
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People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.
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I grew up admiring Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush, and if I were old enough, I would have voted for 41. I was glad he won.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?
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I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
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People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime — who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?'
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I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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Gavin DeGraw - his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something that everybody says on a regular basis but he says it differently. It makes you kind of perk up and listen.
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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
