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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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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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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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.
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I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.
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We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.
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Product downsizing in the face of inflation in order to maintain retail price points has long been used by food companies, notably manufacturers of candy.
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Comfort food is the food that makes us feel good – satisfied, calm, cared for and carefree. It’s food that fills us up emotionally and physically. … Finding comfort in food is a basic human experience.
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Talking about food arouses certain individuals the way talking about sex does others.
