J. D. Salinger Quotes
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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No two wars are identical.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.
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People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.