J. D. Salinger Quotes
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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My father was a lawyer.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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Love is more than one thing.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
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If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
