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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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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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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Everything I post online is curated.
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There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.
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I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.
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Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
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I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
