Terry Gross Quotes
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
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Runnin' through the alley and into the melee. Up on the second the sundown. Those run from January, November, December remember the 1st of the month.
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I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.
