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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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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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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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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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 like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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We want to play a really physical style ball, and so, for us tackling, we know we are shoulder-based tackling team, and we want to hit that strike zone just like you're throwing fastballs into that catchers' mitt just as hard as you can.
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A decade and a half after victory in the Cold War and end-of-history triumphalism, the 'what do you leave behind' question is more urgent than most of us expected. The Western world, as a concept, is dead and the West, as a matter of demographic fact, is dying.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.
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I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man... he was amazing!
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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.
