Calvin Trillin Quotes
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
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I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
