Jeff Giles Quotes
'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.
Jeff Giles
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
Larry Brilliant
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley
I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
Kate Hudson
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
Edmund Phelps
The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
Edmund Morgan
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
Walter Chrysler
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
Kat Dennings
I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
Zach Galifianakis
I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
Gale Harold
I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
Larry Wilmore
I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
Karl Lagerfeld
I saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman' when I was about 15, and I couldn't get up from my seat in the theater; I was so... I was weeping, and I was upset. And I find that people are still like that in a similar circumstance in a theater today, where they just can't get up. It's too heartbreaking.
Joel Grey
Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
Val Kilmer
I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
Harland Williams
My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.
Albert Brooks
I'm a Bill Clinton social Republican.
John Catsimatidis
'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.
Jeff Giles
