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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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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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
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More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.
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I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
