J. D. Salinger Quotes
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There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
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You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
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How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
