Jason Epstein Quotes
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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Politics is a good thing!
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
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We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.
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Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
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By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.
