Calvin Trillin Quotes

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Calvin Trillin

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Live every day like it's you're last because one day you'll be right.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

Jennifer Stone

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While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.

Amor Towles

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The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

Trey Anastasio

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My scripts, they're pretty serious. I basically just describe stuff. I don't put too many notes and letters to the editors. But when I wrote 'KGBLT,' in parentheses I wrote, 'Well this is the best thing I've ever written. It will all be downhill from here. I'm so sorry for the rest of my career.'

Tom King

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I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

Rita Ora

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I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.

Mike White

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I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook.

Lucy Hale

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I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.

Jon Feltheimer

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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

Dean Koontz

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Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

Bryan Stevenson

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