John Vinocur Quotes
At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
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The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.
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I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.
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it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it man has oppressed us for a million years but he goes on steadily cutting the ground from under his own feet making deserts deserts deserts
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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Competition is everywhere here. I think it's a valuable thing. I think it's a good thing.
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At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.
