Noah Baumbach Quotes
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'
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You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.
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Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.
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When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.
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I always viewed life as material for a movie.
