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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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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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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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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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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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
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The artist's tool or the traditional artist's brush and maybe even oil paint are all disappearing very quickly. We use mostly commercial paint, and we generally tend toward lager brushes. In a way, Abstract Expressionism started this all. De Kooning used house painter's brushes and house painters' techniques.
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I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.
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We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.
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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.'
