Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really need to be moving, once again, getting all your arrows in the same direction if you want to have any impact.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.
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I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.
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I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.
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The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
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What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really need to be moving, once again, getting all your arrows in the same direction if you want to have any impact.
