Simon Kinberg (Simon David Kinberg) Quotes
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
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I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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Rather than support workers at home or investments in public schools, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. They want to hand over our schools to private corporations.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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We do not want to alienate supporters.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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I just want to keep learning.
