James Salter Quotes
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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If you truly believe in a united Jerusalem, deeds have to be more than words. We need a real united Jerusalem. It takes determination, audacity, and money to provide full services and law enforcement in the entire city.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
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The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.
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I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.
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They can call me crazy if I failAll the chance that I needIs one in a millionAnd they can call me brilliantIf I succeed…
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Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book.
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I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
