Rob Sheffield Quotes

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

Rob Sheffield

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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

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A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

Jerry Saltz

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A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company.

John Gerzema

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I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

Andrew Sullivan

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I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material.

Matthew Heineman

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Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.

Jeff Van Gundy

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Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence of such workers - their skills and their histories - introduce contradictions into the system that are not always easily absorbed or dissolved.

Amitava Kumar

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Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going.

Trudi Canavan

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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

Tom Stoppard

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Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

Roscoe Mitchell

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Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

Lucy Liu

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Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

Jason Alexander

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