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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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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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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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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Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.
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The assumption of perfectly rational, maximizing behavior won out until recently in the art of modeling, not because it often reflects reality, but because it was useful.
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
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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.
