Willy Vlautin Quotes
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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There is something joyous about not talking.
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I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.
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Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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“I was tired of talking to you twenty minutes after I met you ten years ago.”
