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Anita Brookner Quotes

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: english
Birth: July 16, 1938

Topics

Time Writing No Time Market Read

I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.

Joaquin Phoenix

Start New Shooting Days Movie

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

Life Funny Proud I Can Country Up

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Art Gift Color White Fools Making

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

Music Guitar Loved Rock Point Piano

They talk about the American Dream. I still believe in that. I still believe that this is a great country, where great things can happen, where anybody can become president of the United States. Just that simple statement there defines so much about the whole business of liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

Happiness Business Freedom Great

Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.

People Professional Student Young

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

Forgiveness Past Forward You Look

At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of those three customer sets in isolation, often times you won't delight the other two. So the hurdle we faced with Hulu Plus was, how can we thread this needle in a way that delights all three customer sets?

Isolation Customer You Three Way

Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller.

Jonathan Zittrain

Best Step Bold New Always Facebook

And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.

Song Country Matter Always Little

I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking out for me. I've definitely had angels that have either guided me or helped me through moments in my life, without a doubt.

Christian Slater

Life Power Me Looking Believe Doubt

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Duck Trying Hide Celebrity Out Full

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