Don DeLillo Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.
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I wish I had millions in the bank; I'd never go broke. Let's get that belt and get millions in the bank.
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Every disaster made us wish for something bigger, grander, more sweeping.
