James Salter Quotes
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I would like to direct.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
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The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.
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There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
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Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.
