Joseph Heller Quotes
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I don't even have my own computer.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.
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In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.
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He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
