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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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
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To every little girl her father is a hero.
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I guess I'd just been thinking about it for so long that I forgot changing your gender was not even a question for most people. They just took for granted being a boy or a girl. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be so sure of yourself.
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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.
