John Cheever Quotes
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
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I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.
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I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.
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I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.
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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
