Nick Denton (Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton) Quotes
As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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Good design is good business.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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Life is short and progress is slow.
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I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
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I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.
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Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do our own bodies... yet the auto has replaceable parts.
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You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, 'cause it just doesn't. It doesn't on films, anyway.
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The worst dog gets the best bone.
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For all you Joe Besser haters who claim that he was the worst Stooge, that's not true - Curly Joe DeRita was the worst stooge. Joe Besser was the second worst.
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People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!
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As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'
