James Salter Quotes
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
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If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
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I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
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It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
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Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
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Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.
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Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
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In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
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I don't believe there was ever anybody who loved being happy as much as I did. What I mean is that I was so acutely conscious of being happy, so appreciative of it; that I wasn't ever bored, and was always and continuously grateful for the whole delicious loveliness of the world.
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I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking. I think one can get very set in his ways with titles like 'distinguished professor.'
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As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.
