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 have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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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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The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.
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I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.
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I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
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A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.
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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.
