Calvin Trillin Quotes
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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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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'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I find that the more I give back, the more comes to me.
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Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.
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Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
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I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
