Steven Sinofsky (Steven Jay Sinofsky) Quotes
When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.
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I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.
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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
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Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
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I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
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I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
