Walter Kirn Quotes
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.Walter Kirn
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Parker Posey -
You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
Ted McGinley -
Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
Bai Ling -
I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
Randy Johnson -
Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
Zachary Levi
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye -
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Edmond de Goncourt -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang -
Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
Hal David -
So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
Vanessa Brown -
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Tabare Vazquez -
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell -
I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
Hale Irwin -
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie -
I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
Odette Annable -
You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
Gary Cole
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Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.
Deon Cole -
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
Yuichiro Miura -
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Jane Austen -
I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
Gabrielle Zevin -
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
Walter Kirn