J. D. Salinger Quotes
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.
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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
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For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
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Nobody has the right to act on their own in the name of the United Nations and even less to pretend to be the judge of the entire world
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore.
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Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn't work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
