Roberta Smith Quotes
I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.
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What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
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All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
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the urgent crowds out the essential.
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Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.
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The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
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I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.
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None of my problems come from the people I've killed.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
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I still think it's weird that people are interested in what I like and what I represent.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
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I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.
