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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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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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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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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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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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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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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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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There are programs that don't work.
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I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
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What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
