James Salter Quotes
Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
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Life is a journey which is far more enjoyable when your holding hands with the ones you love
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Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
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Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
