Walter Kirn Quotes
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
Quotes to Explore
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
