Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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I was really suspicious when I heard it for the first time, I thought it was too much pop!
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Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.
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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
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There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
