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Calvin Trillin Quotes

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1935

Topics

People Long Way Out Who Making

I've learned you don't always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing.

You Know Sometimes Nothing Listen

I have a street mind. My whole mindset when I first got to the NBA was, 'I'm bringing that street to the game,' and, 'I'm going to be the hardest guy on the court; I'm going to be the hardest guy on the planet.'

Metta World Peace

Mind Game Mindset Street First Guy

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Work Think First Things Well Should

There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.

Heart Me Brain Doing Stronger You

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done.

Style Candid Night Jump Sometimes

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

Love Time Story Problems Divorce

If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.

Joseph Altuzarra

Challenge Yourself You More Take

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.

Change Technology Name Look Know

You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.

Time Rich Long You Long Time Now

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Knowledge You Know True

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Clarence Thomas

People White Wonder Wrong Starting

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.

Love Style Woman Details American

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