Walter Winchell Quotes
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
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That's how I feel, oddly, when I walk on stage in front of 20,000 people, and it's crazy, the madness: I feel the most relaxed and free, and all of my worries and troubles just are gone. Just I feel the most present in that moment.
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
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The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.
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I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can't take it.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
