James Thurber Quotes
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant.
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.
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My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
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I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
