Corinne Maier Quotes

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

Corinne Maier

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• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Saying

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Think
  • Present

• I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Occurred

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Basketball

• The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Very

• And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Dirty

• Satire doesn't effect change.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Change
  • Effect
  • Satire

• Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Home
  • Very

• Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Real
  • Remember
  • War

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• I'm an idiot.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Idiot

• The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • World
  • Music
  • Business

• I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Respect

• I loved to fall down.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Fall

• When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.

  

  Jared Harris
  • Interesting

• Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Perfect
  • Communism
  • Social Democracy

• Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

  

  Corinne Maier
  • Business
  • Society
  • Logic