Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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Girls run the world.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.
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You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
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I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.
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Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
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The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.
