Erskine Caldwell Quotes
Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
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All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
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I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.
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There were a lot of really special moments for me. When I first sang 'Fix You' by Coldplay, that was one. I love that song so much, and I love Coldplay, and I love what the song meant.
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The people and opportunities your business needs are out there, but the only way to uncover them is to take an active role in bringing your social network to life.
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If my history, my indisputable British history, has never been visited, where does that put me? If we are only going to look at things that need a revisit, you are wiping me out of this country's history. That is unacceptable to me.
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I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.
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I am in favor of economic freedom, but I am not a conservative.
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I feel like I'm good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I've always felt like that's been natural for me.
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I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?
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I'm 70, I hit a drive 280 yards the other day. I never hit a ball 280 in my life. I don't know where we're going. They're going to hit balls over 400 yards. We are only 20 or 30 years out.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I'm not Catholic, but I have a great deal of respect for Pope John Paul. I think that he has stood firm on the moral issues, and I admire him greatly.
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Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
