Calvin Trillin Quotes
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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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 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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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 a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
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I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.
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The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.
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I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.
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Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
