Joseph Heller Quotes
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.
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As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
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I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.
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Life is about family and technology.
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Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
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My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
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I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
