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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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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If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
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The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.
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You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
