J. D. Salinger Quotes
If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
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My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
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All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.
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Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.
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Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.
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If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
