Walter Kirn Quotes
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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War is over if you want it.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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If I had an unlimited budget, I would really be probing that question of life because we know what the questions are, and we know what the destinations are.
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Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
