Joseph Heller Quotes
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
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It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.
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I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.
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The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.
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All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
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Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
