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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J.D. SALINGER I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who reread...
JOHN KRASINSKI If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
J.D. SALINGER I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn...
J.D. SALINGER Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me i...
J.D. SALINGER I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I rea...
GARRETT HEDLUND I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D...
JOYCE MAYNARD A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.
FATS DOMINO I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. SALINGER I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads...
JOHN KRASINSKI Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I neve...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
RACHEL KUSHNER I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read...
CASSI THOMSON Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...
J.D. SALINGER I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. SALINGER I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what...
SYD BARRETT I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy ...
ALAN DAVIES That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
KURT COBAIN I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.
CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
JUAN COLE I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.
ROBIN THICKE I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.
LEONA LEWIS I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, b...
ABBEY CLANCY Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick...
LOUIS THEROUX When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned t...
BETSY BRANDT I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.
DAVID CROSBY I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably qui...
MACKENZIE DAVIS I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that'...
MARC ANDREESSEN I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I ...
BEN SILBERMANN I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people...
ETHAN HAWKE I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's ne...
FORTUNE FEIMSTER I hyperventilate quite a lot.
CARA DELEVINGNE I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gma...
ALFIE ALLEN I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I&...
ASA BUTTERFIELD I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
GAIL PORTER I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
PAM DAWBER When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
EDDIE REDMAYNE I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn'...
MICHAEL RIEDEL In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.
ETHAN ZUCKERMAN When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
JACK WHITEHALL I quite like the idea of family. That's probably the greatest achievement in the world. I've...
MATT SMITH I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, whic...
NATALIE DORMER I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what ...
KINA GRANNIS I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest...
VANESSA FERRARI If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a l...
EDDIE ALBERT I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.
JAMES BLUNT When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to s...
VINCE FLYNN I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
LAURA MARLING I think I'm a girl's girl in the sense that I support women a lot, and I'm definitely al...
CHARLI XCX I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so h...
CHARLES KURALT I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'...
LANCE GROSS I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to ...
ERIK LARSON My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inn...
BAR REFAELI I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the s...
DAVID BALDACCI I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I...
CARRIE VAUGHN I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune...
MARGO LANAGAN There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot o...
ZACK SNYDER I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really f...
ELLIE GOULDING I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a...
ELLIE GOULDING I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I d...
JOHN CAUDWELL I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
RACHEL MINER It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetr...
SEAN BEAN I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it wh...
LINDA VESTER I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, whic...
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a mu...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
OZWALD BOATENG I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa...
LOUIS SACHAR When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No wa...
IRELAND BALDWIN Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read q...
JOHN HUME I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But ...
CALLIE THORNE I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot ...
PENELOPE KEITH I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just rea...
TED ALLEN I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a bo...
SAM CRAWFORD I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhamma...
CONOR MCGREGOR I've spent a lot on clothes. I'm not kidding when I say I could have bought several country ...
DONNA AIR I'd love to do Broadway or the West End. I'm sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but...
REBEL WILSON Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
KENNETH CLARKE I'm a pretty well-read person. I read my paper every morning.
TOM MCCARTHY I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite...
ALAIN DE BOTTON I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatbal...
HEIDI KLUM I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she coul...
DAWN STEEL I'm learning a lot about how to be one of the 'good' actors. You'd hope that it'...
LILY JAMES The thing I get a lot is, 'You've got a very recognisable face.' I'm never quite sur...
WILL POULTER I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I ha...
LORI FOSTER OK, I'm not what you'd call 'wild.' But I'm no prude, either - I love to party, ...
SHILPA SHETTY Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quit...
ALAN BENNETT I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
RANDY QUAID I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, q...
BEN DANIELS Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
J.D. SALINGER I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Van...
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
J. D. SALINGER There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield i...
J. D. SALINGER I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time ...
J. D. SALINGER Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enou...
J. D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER a beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you been drinkin jack and coke all morning. she can make y...
J. D. SALINGER He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just som...
J. D. SALINGER I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and...
J. D. SALINGER I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of ...
J. D. SALINGER You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. SALINGER It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. SALINGER Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young
J. D. SALINGER Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least hum...
J. D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J. D. SALINGER It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J. D. SALINGER I don't exactly know what i mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGER Why the hell don'tcha, instead of keep saying it?
J. D. SALINGER All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER 'Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. ...
J. D. SALINGER 'I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?
J. D. SALINGER What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left ...
J. D. SALINGER People never believe you.
J. D. SALINGER To you everything thats happening in the world appears phony, to be something other than what it rea...
J. D. SALINGER This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling ...
J. D. SALINGER There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible inv...
J. D. SALINGER What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a...
J. D. SALINGER I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. SALINGER I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. ...
J. D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER How long should a man's legs be?Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGER I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGER Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightene...
J. D. SALINGER Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phoney. I could puke every time I hear it
J. D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J. D. SALINGER It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anythi...
J. D. SALINGER Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a h...
J. D. SALINGER Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep ma...
J. D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow.
J. D. SALINGER People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J. D. SALINGER Did you ever get fed up? I said. “I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to ...
J. D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J. D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom whe...
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGER You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times o...
J. D. SALINGER How do you know your going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. SALINGER I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGER Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all r...
J. D. SALINGER I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl ...
J. D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGER The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not s...
J. D. SALINGER Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGER I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of wr...
J. D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyo...
J. D. SALINGER It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. SALINGER Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit ac...
J. D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. SALINGER Where there's smoke, there's usually strawberry Jello.
J. D. SALINGER When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a...
J. D. VANCE It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and...
J. D. VANCE I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I cam...
J. D. VANCE I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.
J. D. VANCE The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pre...
J. D. VANCE We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking ab...
J. D. VANCE Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income ta...
J. D. VANCE Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that ...
J. D. VANCE There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its bas...
J. D. VANCE Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner ...
J. D. VANCE Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire thei...
J. D. VANCE If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effec...
J. D. VANCE The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the dr...
J. D. VANCE I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses ...
J. D. VANCE It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good eco...
J. D. VANCE It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural a...
J. D. VANCE The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is sh...
J. D. VANCE We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that...
J. D. VANCE The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers th...
J. D. VANCE Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and famil...
J. D. VANCE We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading ...
J. D. VANCE We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine ...
J. D. VANCE We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks...
J. D. VANCE We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a...
J. D. VANCE I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
J. D. SOUTHER Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of ...
J. D. SOUTHER I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm reall...
J. D. SOUTHER I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college,...
J. D. SOUTHER A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dix...
J. D. SOUTHER Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for...
J. D. SOUTHER I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is...
J. D. SOUTHER I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wa...
J. D. SOUTHER I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't...
J. D. SOUTHER I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There&...
J. D. SOUTHER I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once ...
J. D. SOUTHER Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because w...
J. D. SOUTHER My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so...
J. D. SOUTHER Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - an...
J. D. SOUTHER I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was...
J. D. SOUTHER I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't wa...
J. D. SOUTHER I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of t...
J. D. SOUTHER If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a sm...
J. D. SOUTHER I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exact...
J. D. SOUTHER I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
J. D. SOUTHER I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote the...
J. D. SOUTHER In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of...
J. D. SOUTHER I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificent...
J. D. SOUTHER I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting ther...
J. D. SOUTHER I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working ...
J. D. SOUTHER Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
J. D. PARDO I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through scho...
J. D. PARDO I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall aslee...
J. D. PARDO It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.
J. D. PARDO When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
J. D. PARDO Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. A...
J. D. HAYWORTH A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes ...
J. D. HAYWORTH Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
J. D. HAYWORTH New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending the...
J. D. HAYWORTH The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 reces...
J. D. HAYWORTH Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of ...
J. D. HAYWORTH The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no ...
J. D. HAYWORTH The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small busi...
J. D. HAYWORTH And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in...
J. D. HAYWORTH Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best socia...
J. D. HAYWORTH Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye...
J. D. HAYWORTH The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican pr...
J. D. HAYWORTH You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront...
J. D. HAYWORTH The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issu...
J. D. HAYWORTH Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a ...
J. D. HAYWORTH The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enfo...
J. D. HAYWORTH The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.
J. D. HAYWORTH Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel s...
J. D. HAYWORTH As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Isr...
J. D. HAYWORTH Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. Th...
J. D. HAYWORTH We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, y...
J. D. HAYWORTH Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. T...
J. D. HAYWORTH Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that...
J. D. HAYWORTH When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employ...
J. D. HAYWORTH Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
J. D. HAYWORTH I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' se...
D. J. MACHALE I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
D. J. MACHALE It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out th...
D. J. MACHALE To write, you need to find what you love.
D. J. MACHALE The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they...
D. J. MACHALE A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep...
D. J. MACHALE To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin...
D. J. MACHALE Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. Tha...
D. J. MACHALE My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
D. J. MACHALE Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things...
D. J. COTRONA I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - th...
D. J. COTRONA It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you ...
J. D. VANCE I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can'...
D. J. COTRONA Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They&...
D. J. COTRONA I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
D. J. COTRONA That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military b...
D. J. COTRONA My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in...
D. J. COTRONA I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get ...
D. J. COTRONA I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or ...
D. J. COTRONA Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something ...
D. J. COTRONA I try to stay in decent shape.
D. J. COTRONA I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with ...
D. J. COTRONA Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk t...
D. J. COTRONA I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a c...
D. J. COTRONA Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.
J. D. GRIFFIN Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to b...
D. J. ENRIGHT I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor b...
J. D. VANCE Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are s...
J. D. HAYWORTH While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development ...
J. D. VANCE On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony...
J. D. VANCE I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my...
J. D. SOUTHER I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monop...
J. D. VANCE Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody ha...
D. J. HICKS Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to...
D. J. ENRIGHT My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar w...
J. D. VANCE It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and up...
J. D. VANCE I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government larges...
J. D. VANCE People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfull...
J. D. VANCE In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a br...
J. D. VANCE I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
J. D. SOUTHER There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think...
J. D. SOUTHER I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose th...
J. D. VANCE My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose...
J. D. VANCE It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that ...
J. D. VANCE Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse...
J D GABRIEL For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou...
J. D. VANCE We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordere...
J. D. VANCE One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio...
J. D. VANCE I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by ev...
J. D. VANCE I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so fa...
J. D. VANCE For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other pe...
J. D. VANCE Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif...
J. D. VANCE Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w...
J. D. VANCE Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get ...
J. D. VANCE If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ...
J. D. VANCE There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the governme...
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