Bert Greene Quotes
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?
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I travel to a lot of schools, and I see firsthand that while we do still have a lot of traditional readers, we don't have as many as we used to. And we're missing an awful lot of kids entirely... Do I want to get rid of the Internet? Obviously, I don't want that because of all the amazing things it brings.
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Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'
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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
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There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed.
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People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting people work their way out of poverty without undermining community health, we have a moral obligation to do so.
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Talking about food arouses certain individuals the way talking about sex does others.
