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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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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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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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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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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I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.
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The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
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My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
