Jerry Saltz Quotes
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.
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Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." -Zoey
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I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'
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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
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I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
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Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
