Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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Things are so much global and Americanised.
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Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.
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Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.
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Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
