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I remember when I first started putting things on the web and people were writing about it. I totally didn't keep up with what was going on because I wanted to present stuff in museums and galleries and have some presence on the web. I feel fortunate to have posted stuff in the beginning.

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• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hours
  • Four
  • Six

• A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Slavery

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Control

• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Support
  • Trump
  • Donald Trump

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Oppressed

• Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Black
  • Road
  • Clothes

• I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Book
  • Television
  • Gift

• Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Failure
  • Adversity
  • Heartache

• Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr
  • Men

• These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Financial

• It annoys me when people can't differentiate between the character and the actor, which is a little bit silly.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • People
  • Character
  • Silly

• My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comforted, and then afterwards, she would sit on a cane basket box next to my bed and read Hans Christian Andersen to me.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Grandmother
  • Fairy
  • Hans Christian Andersen

• I remember when I first started putting things on the web and people were writing about it. I totally didn't keep up with what was going on because I wanted to present stuff in museums and galleries and have some presence on the web. I feel fortunate to have posted stuff in the beginning.

  

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