Rob Sheffield Quotes

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

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I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

John M. Ford

New YorkHappyChoiceNewWellMade

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

Robert Kiyosaki

BusinessSmallRichEmployeesBuild

There are so many aspects of the game that you can work on - you can drive it father, you can drive it straighter, you can hit your irons higher and more consistently, you can get better with your wedges, and you can always putt better. There's never an end to that striving to get better in golf.

Matt Kuchar

WorkFatherDriveGameEndBetter

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

Simon Baker

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Use your development time to brief analysts and industry press. Use these influencers as your eyes and ears to let you know what else is being developed by competitors so that you can be the first to market, and don't make the mistake of launching an also-ran product.

Jay Samit

EyesTimeMistakeYouKnowFirst

I love SZA. She's great.

Jorja Smith

LoveGreatSheI Love

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

Diana Vreeland

DressPeopleThinkWaySomething

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

Alonzo Mourning

KnowledgeGreatSchoolCollegeGame

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

Paul Tsongas

TimeDepressionWarSpringWorld

I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.

Sharlto Copley

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After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

Noah Emmerich

YouLastGetRoleJustMovie

I'm really not a materialistic person.

Rich Brian

PersonMaterialisticReally

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