Don DeLillo Quotes
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
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I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
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They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
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'I sucked a lot of liberal cocks to get where I am today.'
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Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.
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It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
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I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.
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You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
