Walter Kirn Quotes
E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
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I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
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It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.
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Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
