Don DeLillo Quotes
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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I'm big on yoga and of taking care of my mental health.
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
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Class clowns become actors.
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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
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The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
