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smart interesting stuff
Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. Liev Schreiber
smart thinking games
Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.
smart political intelligence
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. Franklin D. Roosevelt
smart men people
Politicians are enormously smart and rational. They don't have the same interests as businessmen ... But a man rises to the top of the United States. He's clawed his way out of 330 million people. OK. He didn't do that because he was dumb, or lucky, or something like that. He understands power. And he understands how to take it. And he understands how to keep it. George Friedman
smart dumb world
In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb. George Gilder
smart understanding trying
We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on. Jon Ronson
smart kate
I've always liked Kate Winslet. She's pretty, smart, and talented. Jon Heder
smart phones self
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions. Jon Kabat-Zinn
smart luck ran
Luck ran out, but smart was for life. John Connolly
ideas people important
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. Charles Kettering
ideas common-sense reform
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. Andrew Mellon
ideas people inspire
I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like. Dwayne Johnson
ideas quality levels
The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in, just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.
ideas brainless
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. Colin Wilson
ideas philadelphia america
The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.
ideas risk conservative
I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine. Claudia Schiffer
ideas soul quality
The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas. Claude Brown
ideas long intellectual
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough. Claude Bernard
stories directors different
Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different. Marion Cotillard
stories libertarian economic-globalization
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong. Molly Ivins
stories needs vicious
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story. Margaret Atwood
stories reactions loud
Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.
stories wells
The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence. Bruce Springsteen
stories ends middle
We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories. Mona Simpson
stories ifs
If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. Mira Nair
stories my-favorite bigs
Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything. Miranda Cosgrove
stories plot conventions
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. Teresa Nielsen Hayden