Walter Kirn Quotes
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.Walter Kirn
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
Yuna -
I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
J. K. Simmons -
Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
Pankaj Mishra -
I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
Katey Sagal -
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott -
You can't just let nature run wild.
Walt Disney
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
Valerie Bertinelli -
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
Salman Rushdie -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
Damon Knight -
I want to try everything.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
Adam Ferrara -
I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
Jackie Chan -
In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
Tcheky Karyo -
I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
Barbara Ehrenreich -
And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
Dabney Coleman -
I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
Sam Smith
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Big business has no party and never shall have.
Haley Barbour -
How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?
Pim Fortuyn -
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
Philip Levine -
I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities.
Emil Cioran -
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
Walter Kirn