Nick Denton (Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton) Quotes
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?Nick Denton
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
Kat Graham -
One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
Camila Alves -
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
Magdi Yacoub -
I so never went through a bad-girl period.
Maggie Siff -
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
Vera Wang -
How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
Barry Schwartz
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard -
Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.
A. R. Rahman -
We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
D. B. Weiss -
All the things that are in the past are in the past.
Pablo Sandoval -
I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
Kate Micucci -
Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
Irwin Shaw -
I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.
Kajol -
I'm shocked at being recognized.
Dan Stevens -
I don't believe in God.
Gail Porter -
Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
Nathaniel Rich -
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
Ed Greenwood -
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
William Congreve -
Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.
Alaa Al Aswany -
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
Nick Denton