James Salter Quotes
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
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Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher.
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We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.
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'Good morning, Pooh Bear', said Eeyore gloomily. 'If it is a good morning', he said. 'Which I doubt', said he.
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I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland.
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The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
