Jill Lepore Quotes

Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.

Jill Lepore

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InnovationCulturePoliticsCritics

Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about our feelings about questions of life and death. It goes absolutely beyond any kind of rules.

Andris Nelsons

LifeMusicDeathQuestionsYouKnow

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Andrew Lang

OpportunityTongueMissedHoldHe

I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

John Krasinski

MeSmallFindDownGoCompany

I have always been a big fan of the BBC program 'Luther' with Idris Elba.

Rose Leslie

AlwaysBigBig FanBeenFanProgram

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

Rose Schneiderman

MenMeOrganizationDawnLostThree

You're put on this platform where you see beauty every day, and you kinda get numb to it. So then it's like, 'What else do you have? You really can't hold a conversation? Next'.

Rotimi

BeautyDayYouEvery DaySeeHold

I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now... Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.

DJ Qualls

StarsMeWorldNowNervousMeet

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

Courteney Cox

FindOffensiveWholeWord

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

Bruno Tonioli

YourselfFlightComfortableCheap

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.

Artie Lange

GoingWantsEverArtie

There aren't many odysseys in cinema for characters.

Rhys Ifans

CinemaManyCharacters

I think anybody who works with Malcolm, the first thing they go, 'Holy cow! I'm working with Theo!' because that was part of my childhood.

Retta

ChildhoodThinkCowGoFirstHoly

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