Joseph Heller Quotes
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.
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There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
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In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
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People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.
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Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.
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The Indian race are waiting and praying.
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Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
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I'm loving the idea of having a baby
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It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.
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We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.
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You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.
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Let someone else get killed!
