John Sladek Quotes
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
Quotes to Explore
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
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When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'
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In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
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I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
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If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
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I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
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When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.
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I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.
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Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Papuans bored, butCottage second-classTicket. Park. Arch.
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The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world.
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The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
