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On Heathers (1989): "It`s a brilliant piece of literature, and I call it literature because it really is. I held it up next to `Catcher in the Rye` and all the great books that I`ve read."

- Winona Ryder

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

- Judd Nelson

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

- Ryan Phillippe

My first film goes into production in October. It`s called White Boy Shuffle and it`s based on a novel about a young black kid and it`s sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

- Ryan Phillippe

It was always my goal to `up the ante` on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.

- Michael Graves

I lived in a tepee in the living room, which already had a cathedral ceiling being English Tudor. I dreampt a lot. I drew. I was a bit of a child prodigy and would be taken to fairs, set up my easel and do 100 portraits. Later I took commissions from the Rye Art Store and made good money until I started to feel like a plastic surgeon with all the babes requests to remove age lines. I went to NYU and was supposed to be a scenic designer but I kept sneaking into acting classes. I was studying with the great Bill Hickey in my off time, playing a delivery boy on a soap opera and doing off-off Broadway. I had to make a choice. I chose acting.

- Bud Cort
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In some sections, where experience has demonstrated that the cereals, except rye, cannot be relied on, buckwheat is a crop of considerable importance.

- Alan Rupe

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.

- Allen Tate

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

- Roger Kahn