John Battelle Quotes
As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
Quotes to Explore
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.
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Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.
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As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
