I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill … - William Saroyan

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There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

William Saroyan

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

Despair, Health, Ill Health, Meaninglessness, Poverty, Writing

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I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Basic, Dream, Knowing, Truth

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

Doctors, Health, Live, Matter, Spirit

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Charles Eisenstein

We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.

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Artie Shaw

When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet. ' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music. '

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Jerry Seinfeld

The only way a show works is you find people who you think are qualified and talented and you give them a chance to do what they do.

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Ethel Merman

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

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T. J. Thyne

I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on Entourage, the Sopranos, etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think thats the most ideal life.

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