Walter Kirn Quotes
Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.
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To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.
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To know life, one must love many things.
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One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
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Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
