Walter Kirn Quotes
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
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That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.
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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
