J. P. Donleavy Quotes
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.
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I always said whoever brings Mexican food to New York would make a million dollars. Then Chipotle happened, which is fine.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
