Donald Barthelme Quotes
Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don’t count?
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...
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I try to get in some extra carbohydrates and protein the night before and during my pre-match meal. I also eat about 200 calories right after to help rebuild my muscles.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?
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I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'
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Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don’t count?
