James Salter Quotes
Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
Quotes to Explore
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest; but there is seldom one in which a man should tell all. Great skill is necessary to know how far to go, and where to stop.
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Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.
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Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
