John Cheever Quotes
..for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.

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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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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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There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.
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Let us all be from somewhere.
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I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.
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In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
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..for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.