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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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.
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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.
