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I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites.
John Curran /
Catch-22
Cited
Landmark
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'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.
Mike Nichols / Film Director
Nightmare
Unhappy
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It's kind of a Catch-22. The more successful you get, the less normal you get.
Coy Bowles /
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Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
Christopher Buckley / Author
Boundaries
Ideological
Admirers
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Cross
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Geographical
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
Eddie Van Halen / Musician
Different
Hate
Situation
Same
Catch-22
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When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
Joseph Heller / Novelist
Done
Tempted
Writing
Catch-22
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Saying
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The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Catch-22
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Identified
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
Mikhail Baryshnikov / Choreographer
Being Happy
Kind
Unhappy
Family Work Your
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As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started reading more literary fiction.
Jed Mercurio /
Teenager
Catch-22
Catcher In The Rye
Literary
Literary Fiction
Rye
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I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.
D. B. Weiss / Author
Associate
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I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.
Lynn Collins / Film Actress
Jobs
Actors
Successful
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Noticed
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I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.
Thomas Steinbeck / Writer
Eighteen
Stunning
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War Time Work
Drafted
Fruitless
War Work Time
Joseph
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'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
Alan Arkin / Actor
Bunch
Connected
Enthusiastic
Years
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Lean
Wildly
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I'm in a Catch-22. If I don't go after a ball, I'm lazy, I'm not giving it 100 percent. If I do dive for the ball - which I did, and blew out my shoulder - it's, Why did I play it so hard?
Ken Griffey, Jr. / Baseball Player
Lazy
Blew
Catch-22
Dive
Shoulder
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At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.
Jessica Fox /
Catch-22
End Of The Day
Sponsor
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Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
Christopher Buckley / Author
Madness
Terror
World War Ii
War World Generation
Catch-22
Endured
Largely
Provided
Readers
World War
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Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.
Robin Wright / Actress
Dylan
Emily
Endless
Catch-22
Classics
Gigantic
Joseph
Pile
Thomas
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One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.
Bjarke Ingels /
Architecture
Certain
Seems
Type
Actually
General
Catch-22
Commissioned
Dilemmas
Incredibly
Types
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It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
Dan Brown / Author
Access
Code
Secret
Always Me Keep
Always Me Fun
Catch-22
Me Fun People
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There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.
Matt Gallagher /
All Time
Assertion
Evidence
Genre
Quiet
Western
Back Up
Carried
Catch-22
Classics
Decade
Joseph
Maria
Pen
Tim
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I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
Donny Osmond / Singer
Artist
Expanding
Familiar
Play
Safe
Show Business
Song
Be True
Catch-22
Covers
Recording
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We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are.
Jada Pinkett Smith / Actress
Beauty
Women
Appreciated
Being A Woman
Kind
Nurture
Vulnerability
Young
Young Women
Understand
Allow
Anyone
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Woman
Dictate
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Drag is great way to get people to pay attention to me, but it's a difficult way to get people to take me seriously as a musician. So it's a weird Catch-22. It's like a gimmick that gets them to pay attention, but when they see my image, they're like, 'There's no way this is going to have any legitimacy to it.'
Trixie Mattel /
Attention
Drag
Legitimacy
Musician
Pay
Pay Attention
Weird
Great Me Weird
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Gimmick
Great Way
Seriously
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I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it's kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there's so much process, procedure and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure and mess is through the legal profession.
Mike Leach / Football Coach
Mess
Caused
Catch-22
Corrupted
Somewhat
Procedure
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