Joseph Heller Quotes
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people.
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I don't like the word 'juggling' or 'work-life balance.' You prioritize.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
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You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.