Gay Talese Quotes

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

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• Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • God
  • Reason
  • Look

• It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Way
  • Reasons
  • Go

• I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Want
  • Me

• There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Wonder
  • Story
  • Train

• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Enemy
  • Stupid

• The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Party
  • Tea

• More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Play
  • Always
  • Batman

• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Intelligence
  • Dry

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• I was a little too young to be a hippie.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Young
  • Little
  • Hippie

• I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Best
  • Film
  • Difficult

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• I have reservations about everything I do.

  

  Larry David
  • Everything
  • Reservations

• Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Best

• I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Different
  • She
  • Beautiful

• Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug treatments of mental health problems.31 Practitioners who explore treatments are typically marginalized as “alternative.” Studies of nondrug treatments are rarely funded unless they involve so-called manualized protocols, where patients and therapists go through narrowly prescribed sequences that allow little fine-tuning to individual patients’ needs. Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Problems
  • Studies
  • Treatments

• A well begun is half ended.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Half
  • Well
  • Ended

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Progress
  • Trouble
  • News

• Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Bible
  • Jew
  • Passage

• News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

  

  Gay Talese
  • News
  • Impact
  • Well