Don DeLillo Quotes
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.
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Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.
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The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.
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I want to be in some Willy Wonka-type weird stuff, a role where I'm an alien. Anything that's new and challenging and real. I like real stuff.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
