Rob Sheffield Quotes

In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

Rob Sheffield

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My generation was the turning point. Women older than us didn't expect to have jobs or careers; those younger did. But we were where it was changing - which is interesting but uncomfortable.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

John Frankenheimer

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I did a couple of plays at university, badly, where I made friends with Benedict Cumberbatch. When you see someone like him acting, it makes you think there's not much point in doing it yourself.

Robert Rinder

YourselfThinkSomeoneDoingActing

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

Robert Rinder

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I think we're so advanced when it comes to watching narrative material. I mean, it's all we do is consume content all day long. So when a character walks onscreen, you immediately start making connections for that character: Is that a good guy? Is that a bad guy?

Jeff Nichols

GoodCharacterDayStartThinkYou

You can't tell someone how to write their own book.

Stefflon Don

BookSomeoneYouWriteTellOwn

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

Rooney Mara

FamilyMeYouEveryoneEverything

In my prime, I was the ruler. Simple as that. I understand there's a lot of great fighters who've followed me already since I was the champ - and I hope there's another who comes along does even better because want to see that - but I haven't seen anyone do what I did yet.

Roy Jones Jr.

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I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

Martin Seligman

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Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

Luc Ferrari

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I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

Dhani Harrison

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In a family of faith, you don't believe in divorce; you believe you can make it.

Deborah Joy Winans

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