Joe Meno Quotes
I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.
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Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother.
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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
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I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
