Bill Keller Quotes
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helping me.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
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This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.
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Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.'
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The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring. I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there's multiple characters who carry the storyline.
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There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
