Serge Schmemann Quotes
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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Bling is good.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
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You’re like a priest who awakens one day and realizes that his god has been replaced by a cardboard cut-out, and he’s no longer able to ignore his own disbelief. And, like the priest, you’ve sacrificed all hope of a normal life on the altar of something you no longer believe in.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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Lob City doesn't exist anymore. Lob City is done.
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It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more.
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What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
