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.
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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.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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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.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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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.
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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.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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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.
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I want to try everything.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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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.
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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.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, 'divine.'
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When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
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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.
