Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.
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467. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.'
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be a difference between indies and major labels, but I don't think there is anymore.
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During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.