Calvin Trillin Quotes
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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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 can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.
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I thought: should I be worried? I was under arrest. In a town where I'd never been before. Apparently for murder. But I knew two things. First, they couldn't prove something had happened if it hadn't happened. And second, I hadn't killed anybody. Not in their town, and not for a long time, anyway.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
