Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
Quotes to Explore
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
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I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way.
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People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
