James Huneker Quotes
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
Quotes to Explore
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I'm a workaholic.
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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
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I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
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We have performed promotion and press but we have never been able to fit it into the schedule.
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Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
