For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
Robert Rodriguez
Recitation: by Male by Female
We've found that the more niche you are, the better off you are.
Jenny Packham
BetterYouMoreNicheOffFound
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
Andrew Vachss
WorkFailureFaithGreatValueMe
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
Megan Abbott
LoveNew YorkWritingNewKindTwo
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
Robert Quillen
AgeGrowGetOlderOurAnecdotes
We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.
John Hench
ColorsFeelingParkBigWhereLike
Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.
Robert Greenwald
WorkServiceSocietyRunPossible
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley
GreatSoulSpringPresentLiterature
I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.
Jason Ritter
CrazyWeirdLearnMoviesMoreBar
Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.
Pope Benedict XVI
IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
Pete Maravich
LifeBasketballMy LifeMeaningBeen
For me, adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society, coming to know the environmental conditions that shape people's lives and viewing the present in the context of history.
Tim Cope
HistoryPeopleMeEnvironmentalDeep
'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.
Nnedi Okorafor
AmbitiousNovel
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