J. D. Salinger
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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 J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. SOUTHER J. D. 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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 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 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 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 J. D. SOUTHER 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. 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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... J. D. VANCE
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It is a lie. 
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