Jason Epstein Quotes
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I am not honest.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I write about families. That is who we are.
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I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.
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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."
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Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
