Calvin Trillin Quotes
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
Quotes to Explore
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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I'm not politically correct.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
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Those who don’t love themselves as they are rarely love life either.
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I was two years old when Dr Aiken drove into the district in his new Renault, the first automobile in the district…
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I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
