Calvin Trillin Quotes
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
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I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.
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If I don't love my character, I can't do it.
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
