Vance Bourjaily Quotes
Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Adam Goldberg
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
Odeya Rush
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
Walton Goggins
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
Taissa Farmiga
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
Larry David
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
H. G. Bissinger
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
Gabrielle Aplin
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
Imogen Poots
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
Zhang Ziyi
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
Edmund White
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
Bai Ling
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Our national values demand that we assist the families of our men and women in uniform, especially at the time of their greatest need.
John Delaney
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The world is full of unused corners.
Brenna Yovanoff
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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
Terence McKenna
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then you too are a dream which last night and the night before that and the years before that you were not.
Mary Oliver
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Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
Vance Bourjaily