J. D. Salinger Quotes
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
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I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
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Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.
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I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
