Calvin Trillin Quotes
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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Man, my days in Oakdale were a whirlwind.
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I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks as an artist. But I've learned at the end of the day you just have to enjoy your life.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
