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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I admire law enforcement agents who put their lives on the line to enforce the law while building trust and understanding within a community and around the world. I honor those who seek justice for all the people of this country.
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The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.
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Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
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The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.
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Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.
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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.
