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Inspirational Quotes by Calvin Trillin
- I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
- Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
- As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
- The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
- There's always a source for humor.
- I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
- I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
- I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
- We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
- I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
- People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
- What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
- Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
- Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
- Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
- I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
- If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
- When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
- The price of purity is purists.
- Why in the world are you a Republican?
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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