Renata Adler Quotes
I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
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I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
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Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
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I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
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Those trying to get support for their iPhones don't necessary trust their carriers, so they ask their friends for help.
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The back hair doesn't get all that long; it's just really thick. So if I don't keep it shaved once a week, it's a problem, and it could take two hours. And my wife's got to do it, so it's her problem. I told her we just need to buy a laser hair removal machine because it would take three or four years and probably 50 sessions to get rid of it.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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I will read anything rather than work.
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Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
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You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.
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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.
