Jeff Giles Quotes

'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.

Jeff Giles

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FunnyAgeHellWhiteTeethShe

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

John Leeson

EyeI CanHeightCatchFantastic

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

LoveGoodManReligionPeopleBeast

I've never seen the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Michael Heisley

NeverCollectiveSeenAgreement

Think about the systems at McDonald's. It's a very mechanized world, where you take out a highly processed patty.

Steve Ells

WorldThinkYouMcDonaldOutTake

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

Stacey D'Erasmo

TechnologyAgeTimeTravelSleep

I don't care who you are. You can be the smallest person off the street, or you could be the biggest person in the world. I'm going to treat everybody the same - with respect.

DeMar DeRozan

RespectWorldTreatCareYouPerson

In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.

Chris Hadfield

TimeSpaceYearLateNewsBoy

Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.'

Christian Kane

FriendBestTogetherSchoolRoad

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Clint Eastwood

PeopleMindRealityDoingYouKnow

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

Brenda Blethyn

PeopleLookingStand UpThinkStand

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Hamilton

BelieveNiceReleaseSimply

For the first years of my life, I went to school in Rhodesia. My memory of living in the townships is that they were actually really happy places.

Petina Gappah

LifeSchoolMemoryHappyMy Life

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