Walter Kirn Quotes
Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, generally known terrain, different only because of a deep substratum, which leads those who are receptive to sense the finer regions.
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I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.
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One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.
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Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
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More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
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Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.
