J. D. Salinger Quotes
It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.
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The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the cmbined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.
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It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!
