Brian Selznick Quotes
But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?Brian Selznick
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
Orson Pratt -
New York is my home.
Vanessa Williams -
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston -
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe -
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
Omar Epps
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
Maisie Williams -
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
Iris Apfel -
Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Hannibal Buress -
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Maeve Binchy -
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch -
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
Dan Fogelberg
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant -
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
C. L. R. James -
Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
Laila Ali -
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman -
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
Salman Rushdie -
Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
Sam Altman
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In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.
Erykah Badu -
Patient zero feels great and is back to work.
Liz Parrish -
An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
Fred Allen -
The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.
Erin Morgenstern -
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
John le Carre -
But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?
Brian Selznick