James Gleick Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.
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Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.
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Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.
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Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
