Nick Denton (Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton) Quotes

While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

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• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • Me
  • Expectation

• VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Country
  • Friends
  • American

• God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Survival
  • Stronger
  • Instinct

• Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

  

  Confucius
  • Mistakes
  • Ashamed
  • Crimes

• I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them. It's not just about admiration for their films, it's how they deal with you, and whether they get you or the way you work. If they don't, you better adjust your way of working to suit them. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Character
  • Giving

• There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

  

  Justin Cathal Geever Anti-Flag
  • Way
  • Care
  • Media

• Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Heart
  • Perfect
  • Fool

• I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Enjoy

• Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Act
  • The Beatles
  • Roy Orbison

• They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

  

  Serge Lang
  • Community
  • Attention
  • Problem

• The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Jobs
  • Games
  • Noble

• It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Consciousness
  • Illusion
  • Creates

• If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

  

  James Franco
  • Morning

• Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get another chance. But I do feel, in my approach, I am not really a minimalist. I don't like to leave out ideas that I think could add something to the story. Sometimes, you can't quite pick up on all of it in one sitting. It's not by design. But maybe it's a side effect of my approach.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Running

• While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

  

  Nick Denton
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