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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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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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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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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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 think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
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The thing about me is that I'm a total music freak.
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There was this book I read and loved,The story of a shipWho sailed around the world and foundThat nothing else existsBeyond its own two sailsAnd wooden shellAnd what is held within.All else is sure to pass.We clutch and graspAnd debate what's truly permanent.
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Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.
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The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
