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Rob Sheffield Quotes

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 2, 1966

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Live Shoes Red Game Guitar Reach

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

Basketball Ice Play Because How

I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

Son First Second Had Hugo Thomas

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Positive Mind Thought Possible Empty

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Love Respect Time Humility You See

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

Good Hope Good Night People Night

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Sunset Technology Internet Along PC

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

School Competition Writing Play Old

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

Parents Grandmother Both Bollywood

I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.

Live Football Road You Down I Can

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Great Cinema Storytelling Modernity

The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in which dire circumstances necessitate immediate action. But with such large amounts of taxpayer money at stake, a hastily developed, under-thought-out plan could have been disastrous.

Money Action American Plan Perfect

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

Life Son Me Lost Letters First

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