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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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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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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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.
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I've been going long enough to prove what I wanted to prove, to get the girl I wanted to get, to make the money I wanted to make, to drink all the beer I wanted to drink. I've played - not exactly everywhere, but I've played enough places.
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We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.
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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.
