Jeff Giles Quotes

The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah.

Jeff Giles

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GodWisdomWorldChanceLoseCareer

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

Max von Sydow

MyselfFindSeriouslyHardTake

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

Robert Kennedy

ChildrenDeathViolenceLakeProduct

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.

Angela Merkel

TimeCountryWrongCrisisDebtOwn

Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.

Ann Cotton

EducationSuccessSupportBuilding

The overwhelming evidence is that trauma is a major factor in CTE.

Ann McKee

TraumaEvidenceOverwhelmingMajor

We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do?

Merrie Spaeth

GreatProblemMoreAudienceReinvent

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

Sophie Marceau

PeopleThinkLaughCryAlmostThan

There is no organic process where you can take a diverse community like America and then distill it down to it only looks monolithic without having some kind of inorganic interplay going on that created that outcome.

Tony Cardenas

CommunityProcessAmericaYouDown

We get paid way less than we deserve. We deliver shows and deserve to get paid more. We practically pay to do this. You deserve to get better paid if you sell the fight.

Jose Aldo

FightBetterYouWayDeserveMore

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

LifeDayMeaningSomethingOnly

It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

Win Butler

MusicMoneyPeopleCrazyEndBecome

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

Philip Roth

RoadHellPavedHell Is

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