Joseph Heller Quotes
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
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I've never taken myself too seriously.
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Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.
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I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.
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When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.
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The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.
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First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.
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Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
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Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
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What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
