James Salter Quotes
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
Floyd Skloot -
People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
A. James Clark -
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
Oliver Sacks
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Ice Cube -
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings -
I love Niecy Nash. I would take a vacation with the lady. She is just delightful.
Jack McBrayer -
I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
Karel Reisz -
I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
Samuel Barnett -
You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
Lady Gaga
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
Edmund White -
I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.
Dan Shechtman -
People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Wallace Stevens -
There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
Karrie Webb -
Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
L. Frank Baum
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It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.
Kaya Scodelario -
But I'm alone on my throne All these riches
Nicki Minaj -
I love doing voiceover work.
Dakota Goyo -
With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
James Patterson -
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
Dick Wolf -
You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.
James Salter