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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Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
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Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
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Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.
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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.
