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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Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
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I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.
