J. D. Salinger Quotes

I'm just interested in finding out what the hell goes. I mean do you have to be a goddam bohemian type, or dead, for Chrissake, to be a real poet? What do you want - some bastard with wavy hair?

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• I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

  

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• If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

  

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• I was a tomboy.

  

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• I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

  

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• I will not leave this Earth until I play Harley Quinn.

  

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• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

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• I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

  

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• I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.

  

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• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

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• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  

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• I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.

  

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• I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

  

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• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  

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• I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.

  

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• If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

  

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• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  

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• Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.

  

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• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

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• The '60s look wasn't something I consciously chose, but in my late teens, I found myself styling my hair in a retro way and liking clothes - the shapes and silhouettes - that were from that era. They just reflected who I was.

  

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• In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

  

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• The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  

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• Light held together by moisture.

  

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• I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town.

  

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• I'm just interested in finding out what the hell goes. I mean do you have to be a goddam bohemian type, or dead, for Chrissake, to be a real poet? What do you want - some bastard with wavy hair?

  

  J. D. Salinger
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