Karl Iagnemma Quotes
I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.
Karl Iagnemma
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
Sammy Hagar
Van Halen
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
Carice van Houten
I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
Yvonne Strahovski
We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
Valerie Plame
Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
P. J. O'Rourke
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'
Lorrie Moore
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
Bette Midler
That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.
Dave Keuning
The Killers
I like collaborating with actors. I love finding that moment where it all comes together.
Jeff Baena
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
Austin Farrer
I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.
Karl Iagnemma
