Walt Mossberg Quotes
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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When I introduce you to somebody, his name is Big Pun. When I introduce you to somebody, his name is DJ Khaled. When I introduce you to an artist, her name is Remy Ma. If I introduce you to somebody, it's Cool and Dre or Scott Storch - people who change the face of the game.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
