Calvin Trillin Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
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I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.
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The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
