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 feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.
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In this day and age, when there are so many people creating work online and writing their own shows, I wouldn't tell another actor, 'If you can do anything else go do that.' I would tell them to figure out the story they want to tell, to figure out what artists inspire you and why, and then figure out a way you can create that for yourself.
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There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.
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I am proud of the fact that people consider me a style icon.
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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.
