Edward Hopper Quotes
Ninety percent of them artists in general are forgotten ten minutes after they’re dead.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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I've had many ideas come from clients.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
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Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
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There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
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I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stuff, but I'm not good if people aren't super psyched - if they're not like me.
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The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.
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If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.
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Mohammed Taheri-Azar, a naturalized U.S. citizen hailing from Iran, crashed his SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006, injuring nine people.
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I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.
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Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.
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A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
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The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.
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I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.
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The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.
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Ninety percent of them artists in general are forgotten ten minutes after they’re dead.
