Calvin Trillin Quotes

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

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• You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Business
  • You
  • Always

• Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Love
  • You
  • Dance

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Think
  • You
  • Everything

• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Thought

• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • You
  • Learn

• There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Anger

• Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Self-Worth

• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Important
  • You
  • Patience

• For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Quit

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Experience
  • You
  • Looking

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Singing

• You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • You
  • Always
  • Performance

• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • You
  • Poverty

• You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Dying
  • Bored

• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Spirit
  • Place

• I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Woman

• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.

  

  Kevin McKidd
  • God
  • Trying
  • Kids

• The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • God
  • Dream

• I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part.

  

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• When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Writing
  • You
  • Delivery