David Edelstein Quotes
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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Power to the peaceful.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.
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'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.
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Getting books out into the world helps us all.
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Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
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Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.
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My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.
