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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To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence
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When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.
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I think it's time that the wealthy and corporations paid their fair share to support this country.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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We're all getting along better than ever, ... It's like night and day. We all get along extremely well. It's just all really positive and really good.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
