J. D. Salinger Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I like music a lot.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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I would read all day if I could.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
