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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still…
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During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very…
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak…
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Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
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In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading…
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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.
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If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to…
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When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I…
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When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because,…
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After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question…
— Carl Sagan
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I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not…
— Colin Farrell
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