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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The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
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I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
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I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.
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Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.
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I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
