Whitney Balliett Quotes
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
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I like to have sleepovers.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
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I couldn't imagine a home without animals.
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If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.
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... for all the reasons we have discussed in these pages, judgments brought to the board by leaders are likely to be better than those coming to the board in a command company. Moreover, the effective working relationships between leaders and directors in a leadership company further ensures the exercise of sound judgments for such momentous decisions ...
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I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person.
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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
