Vance Bourjaily Quotes
Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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When we look at each other, we're the same family. You don't have to see black or Latino - we're one family. That's America.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.
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The issue Israeli-Palestinian conflict, already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.
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Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.
