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		There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Green 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Hits and flops are overrated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kangana Ranaut 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Sarandos 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Van Morrison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Babbitt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Beckham 
			 
			
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		You can't come into this world without becoming its victim. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vernon Howard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Ross 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Kingsolver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Padma Lakshmi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nate Corddry 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nadia Giosia