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Calvin Trillin Quotes

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Funny Nothing Write Inappropriate

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

Creativity Boundaries Pushing Guess

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

Impossible Go Scholarship Without

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.

Child Universe Rules Moral Three

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

War Conflict World Rest Reality

I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are generally seen as tough guys. To me, when a hip-hop musician always plays tough, I find it annoying because I know they're not really like that - there's something deeper and vulnerable. There has to be, because they're human beings.

Success People Me Tough Think Find

There's a way you have to play the quarterback position in the NFL. Maybe I'm a little bit old school, but I think you have to play the game in the pocket with consistency.

School Consistency Game Think You

I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both sides so that it is seen as politically advantageous to the Republicans or Democrats, that even in this very polarized partisan world that you can advance legislation. I have to believe that, or I wouldn't want to get up every morning.

Good Morning Together World Believe

I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'

Dexter Fletcher

Become Wild Director Because Just

The representation that I always go back to is a pop star - whether it's Lady Gaga or Madonna, I love the way those women in pop music have always made an effort to create a specific vision.

Love Women Music Vision Effort Lady

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

Ashton Shepherd

Friend Car Best Brother Growing Up

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

Peter Diamandis

Death Dying Used Chances Your Times

There are so many women out there relying on me to represent them.

Women Me Out Represent Many Them

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