John Battelle Quotes

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

John Battelle

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I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.

Jerome Charyn

LifeMy LifeI CanSayHollywood

Shadow owes its birth to light.

John Gay

LightShadowBirthOwes

I'm actually a pretty clean-cut person.

Andie MacDowell

PersonPrettyActuallyClean-Cut

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Jean Rostand

WealthNothingMoreFortitudeThan

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Mary Astell

SlaveryWhyAgainstSacredNecessary

Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.

Lisa Jewell

CompetitionNameLoserWinnerLook

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

Judi Dench

LiveSocietySometimesEverything

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus

EducationFoodMoneyClothesLittle

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

Boris Pasternak

WritingEasyModernTranslationFar

I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.

Boyd Holbrook

WorkMeHometownYouActorCompany

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Algernon Blackwood

BeautifulMoonEvilPlaceEmotions

I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me.

Paul Watson

HateSupportPeopleMeThinkJust

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