Joseph Heller Quotes
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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I will run against anybody.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.
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A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
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I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better.
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There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.
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The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
