Saul Bellow Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.
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Never regret anything you have been through, because only with those trials will you become a better person the next day.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
