Calvin Trillin Quotes
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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I'd love to return to theater.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
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I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
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I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
