Joseph Heller Quotes
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I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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Fandom is amazing.
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
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The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
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Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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...People that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze... those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.
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There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
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I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.
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You definitely see a difference in some guys' games when they do get paid. I'm trying to make sure I'm not that player.
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It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.
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Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case.
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To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
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The fact is that the College Board's products - the SAT, other standardized tests, the accompanying strategy guides - are sold at far higher than the cost to make them.
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..it had been fun to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.
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The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
