Joseph Heller Quotes
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.
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I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.
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I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.
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I can't start writing until I have a closing line.
