J. D. Salinger Quotes
I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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The professors at Harvard are smarter and more world-renowned, and so your child will learn from a pre-eminent scholar who is a leader in his or her field. Some of Harvard's professors are even famous.
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It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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The first script I got was Narc and I really responded to it; it reminded me of a '70s type movie, I really liked the characters, I didn't anticipate the ending.
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Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.
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I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.
