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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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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Value is what you get.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
