Joyce Kilmer Quotes
The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I have learned how to better handle things as they come.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.
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If I want the day off, the boss never says 'No.' I paint away listening to an iTunes jazz station called KCSM Jazz Radio. It's perfect. Good music and no news traffic or celebrities.
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We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and - our former riches.
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Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel's fans, and blighted my reputation forever.
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I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are.
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The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
