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J. D. SALINGER I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
J.D. SALINGER I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the f...
WHIT STILLMAN I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa...
LOUIS SACHAR 'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the thing...
ADAM RAYNER I like a lot of stuff -- the more stuff the better. My philosophy is that you can never have too muc...
ANN HUGHES I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'...
JOE GIBBS I can't take too much right now. But I'll be all right. It didn't hurt that bad. I've taken a lot wo...
MATT BONISLAWSKI People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at ...
FIONA APPLE I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads...
JOHN KRASINSKI It's a lot of fun to be able to run around with guns and scream and yell and do the kind of FBI-...
DAVID SUTCLIFFE It would be tough if you were behind a bad guy. Sometimes you get a guy that has a lot of ego, but a...
JUSTIN FORSETT I don't usually recycle my cans and stuff because it is too much of a hassle; there aren't really an...
TIMOTHY MUDD It's so much fun to play the bad girl. Everybody has that little side of them they never really ...
WILLA HOLLAND A lot of people have a romantic ideal of what it's going to be like. They don't expect that the weat...
GARY MONK I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitel...
MIRANDA COSGROVE Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane da...
ALEKSANDER HEMON Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was t...
LARRY HAGMAN There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me...
MICHAEL CAINE For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.
COLE SWINDELL It's causing a lot of havoc. But it's really not too bad.
BONNIE CURTIS They run a lot of similar stuff, and (John) runs a lot of really good stuff too, to try to get misma...
JOSH PASTNER Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.
DEB CALETTI Really it's kind of fun in a way because we get to play teams from other parts of the state, which i...
BOB HOLT This was a lot of fun. It was so much fun to play with such great competition.
JOE MANNING Now I sometimes wonder how things might have turned out differently if I'd not made that decision, b...
EMILY M. DANFORTH Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its...
JOYCE RACHELLE Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too ...
ED BELFOUR A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
ADAM MCKAY We're going to be an incredibly young basketball team, but sometimes that's fun, too. Sometimes they...
LISA BLUDER They're young. They really represent our next wave. They've been tested a lot this year, and sometim...
MICHAEL LITZINGER [She thought it would be hard. There's an aura around Koufax. He's thought to be the J.D. Salinger o...
JANE LEAVY It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
DAVID O. SELZNICK All we hear about is the bad stuff, but there is so much more that outweighs it that's wonderful and...
JEAN ARMOUR POLLY Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York...
BETH HENLEY He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that ...
JON KRAKAUER What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much ...
TERRY EAGLETON We really do love playing music. Most of what we hear from people at our live shows is, 'I had a lot...
DAVID KLEIN We all sometimes take ourselves too seriously. I want them to think that I'm one of them, that this ...
GENE DEFILIPPO They really put on a show [and] make sure the crowd is thoroughly impressed. Their shows are a lot o...
ZACKY VENGEANCE I'm sure it would be fun annihilating all my enemies too. I'm not really drawn to that, but as a cha...
ADRIEN BRODY We just had a lot of fun, and we wanted to include him in that stuff.
BRENT NELSON Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
KARL PILKINGTON Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
MARK TWAIN The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make ...
JOHN HURT Too much of anything is bad.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Sometimes I just feel like this team doesn't realize how good they are. They've worked too hard and ...
CHARLI TURNER THORNE Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.
RITA ORA It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
KEN JENNINGS Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
MARK TWAIN Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.
ADRIAN GRENIER When we first started learning about it, it seemed like it was going to be a lot of fun and not so m...
ROBERT JAMES There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other rea...
SONAKSHI SINHA I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
ED BRADLEY Sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replace...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS That pitching was unbelievable. It was so much fun to see all of our fans going crazy, but the pitch...
KARIM GARCIA You know, we can't really worry about that. We're just worried about who is in front of us and that'...
DONNIE EDWARDS You know, we can't really worry about that, ... We're just worried about who is in front of us and t...
DONNIE EDWARDS John has a lot, a lot, a lot of experience. It looked pretty bad, but it really couldn't have come o...
CASEY MATTUCK I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's s...
SONDRE LERCHE I think there's a lot of stuff going out there that isn't really real. I think what happened is peop...
MARGARITA ROMO Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Fame is a lot of fun. Fame gets you to boxing matches, football games and cool stuff.
DALE EARNHARDT JR Back in the old days, Bryan Marchment and those guys were coming at you with their knees. And (the r...
JASON CHIMERA Being from the South, there isn't really a lot of great theater. You get musicals and Neil Simon pla...
WES BENTLEY I am used to doing dramatic work, but its fun to grab a gun, and go running around, getting beat-up....
DEVON BOSTICK Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacati...
BERNARD CORNWELL Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
EDNA FERBER Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little
EDNA FERBER I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stu...
JAN KOUM For us, the fun of American Idol is that it's a cheesy show that is much more enjoyable when bad sin...
DAVE DELLA TERZA I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, a...
DAKOTA FANNING Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too ...
ALEJANDRO AMENABAR There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think...
NATHANIEL KAHN But that might just be bad luck. Sometimes you just lose games. We have guys who are phenomenal athl...
MIKE D'ANTONI Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn ...
CAM burning something is always bad, but sometimes its good,,,
HUSAM DAOUD I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, ...
SANDRA OH A lot of his stuff was a lot slower, so there was a period of time where we were all worried. I was ...
AARON STERN I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad sel...
DAVID FURNISH Hemingway changed prose; so did Salinger and Nabokov.
DAVID LIPSKY I enjoy being around the game too much. It's too much fun to be a part of.
BRAD PAGE Thank goodness the weather is really bad so you don't have a lot of people on the beach.
BRYAN CHEPLIC I have so much fun with Matt LeBlanc that whether I love it or not really makes no difference to me ...
DREA DE MATTEO You can't always blame people for your disappointment. Sometimes, it's only you who is really to bla...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.
LINFORD CHRISTIE I love doing stunts. It's so much fun.
ELEANOR TOMLINSON That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.
CHARLIE BYRD I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose ...
H. G. BISSINGER Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes....
ANDREA CORR This is not too much fun right now.
DANIEL BERTHIAUME It's an exciting program and its a lot of fun.
DEBRA JONES We have some really unusual and fun stuff.
ANN HELBERG We don't want to give too much away. We have a lot more ultra-secret stuff that we are ready to pres...
THOMAS FLOWERS I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who reread...
JOHN KRASINSKI Sometimes, a bye can be bad for you. You start to overanalyze the opponent and drive yourself nuts. ...
DONNIE EDWARDS College is so awesome! It's really too bad they try to ruin it with classes!
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"I beg your pardon?" ...
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J.D. SALINGER You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...
J.D. SALINGER If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable...
J.D. SALINGER Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ...
J.D. SALINGER We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ...
J.D. SALINGER Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa...
J.D. SALINGER If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. SALINGER People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
J.D. SALINGER Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—...
J.D. SALINGER I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
J.D. SALINGER If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
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 I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
J.D. SALINGER I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J.D. SALINGER It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J.D. SALINGER Sleep tight, ya morons!
J.D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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 Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
J.D. SALINGER Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
J.D. SALINGER One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
J.D. SALINGER You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
J.D. SALINGER But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
J.D. SALINGER Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
J.D. SALINGER Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
J.D. SALINGER We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
J.D. SALINGER -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
J.D. SALINGER If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
J.D. SALINGER I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
J.D. SALINGER There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
J.D. SALINGER Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
J.D. SALINGER O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
J.D. SALINGER People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
J.D. SALINGER Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J.D. SALINGER Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
J.D. SALINGER I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
J.D. SALINGER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER