Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
Quotes to Explore
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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Audience don’t matter where they are from. They all come to see us. But I have to say that the Eastern audience is always extremely polite.
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The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
