James Salter Quotes
The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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My aim is to create the perfect dress!
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Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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I would tell new artists to be themselves. Show your talents first, have your own identity, don't try to be Lady Saw. If you're coming out to be like me, once you get in, return back to yourself, that's the only way you'll be happy. Don't come in trying to be me and then disrespect me.
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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
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The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
