Calvin Trillin Quotes
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.
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The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
