James Salter Quotes
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Being evil is easy.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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Winning feels great, and everybody loves a winner. But the very best figure out what's coming next and don't assume they've got the winning formula forever.
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He's had to make some adjustments. I really feel like the adjustments have been made.
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I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
