James Salter Quotes
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.
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I don't punish myself. Life's too short.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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Everything is so much more stacked than it was even five or 10 years ago. There are so many more good players, so many solid players. The level doesn't really drop from around 100-500. It's really tough to make it, but I just have to work as hard as possible.
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I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
