Calvin Trillin Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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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.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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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.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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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.
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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.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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'I smell fennel,' Launcelot said. 'That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore.'
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The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
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I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
