J. D. Salinger Quotes
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
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My legacy is almost like a personal challenge to go as far as I can go.
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It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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You don't know how many celebrities I've gone into recording sessions with who first are kind of weirded out by us freaky voiceover people, then when the day is over, they want to stay. They haven't had that much fun acting in ages. It's hard to have any attitude about it.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.