James Salter Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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Chet Edwards votes for every bailout and against ending any bailout!
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The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.
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In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.
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Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.
