J. D. Salinger Quotes
I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I do want to get married again, and I want to have kids. And this time, I really want to do it right.
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Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious that the source in question doesn’t have any more dollars to give you.
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Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.
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In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
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I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.
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I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.
