Saul Bellow Quotes
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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If you think that the internet has changed your life, think again. The IoT is about to change it all over again!
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He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
