Jacob Weisberg Quotes
The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.
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One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.
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The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers.
