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.
Earl Weaver
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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.
Nathan Kirsh
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
Tatyana Tolstaya
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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.
Sadie Frost
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
Taylor Swift
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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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!
Dakota Blue Richards
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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.
Tania Raymonde
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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.
Karen Kingsbury
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
Randy West
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
Natalie Dormer
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. Wilson
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
Kate Winslet
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
Ian Botham
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Power to the peaceful.
Vanessa Hudgens
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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.
Om Puri
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In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
James Mattis
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The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.
Paul R. Ehrlich
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You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.
Wayne Rooney
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As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people who wanted to make it into a movie. Even though it ultimately didn't work to do that movie, I did work with some of the other writers and by myself writing a script for that.
Jason Katims
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Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
Peace Pilgrim
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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.
David Edelstein