John Steinbeck Quotes
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
Quotes to Explore
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Many actors are not willing to wait and take the risk. They get restless sitting at home and, eventually, take up anything that comes their way. It's not that I wasn't offered supernatural shows and love stories again, but I chose to wait for the right opportunity. I deserve variety, or I will feel stagnant.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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A lot of people are successful in this business because of a catchphrase or athletic ability or charisma or wrestling; Ric Flair is the personification of all of those things, much like his daughter Charlotte, as she is already a multiple-time champion after only a few years in the WWE.
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
