Robin Sloan Quotes

There's certainly satire written about techies, but it's so snarky and snide and doesn't treat him as a whole person. The people I worked with at Twitter - they're very analytical, but they're also deep and thoughtful - I feel like they deserved a charismatic spokesperson.

Robin Sloan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

PeopleTreatDeepFeelThoughtful

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Jim Brown

WorkTimeI AmPeoplePerception

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Joe Wright

ArtDivisionFilmBetweenCommercial

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

John le Carre

AgeWayMy OwnOwnCutKnew

I thought that losing weight by following a strict diet will make me more flexible and feel more confident about my body. I have become so used to the routine now and have fallen in love with my body that I would want to follow it forever.

Amruta Khanvilkar

LoveLosingMeThoughtConfident

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

Soundarya

ScienceCollegeMeMedicineSomeone

I'm used to being a supporting player in the background. All I ever wanted, at the very most, was to have a small part in something where people were like, 'Oh, right, that one guy, whoever he is, was pretty good in that.' That's all I ever really strived for or expected.

Robin Lord Taylor

GoodPeopleSmallRightPrettyGuy

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

Jonah Lomu

TimeWalkWorldYearChoiceCup

Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.

Douglas Rushkoff

ChildrenPeopleResearchNewYoung

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CreativePeopleWritingLivingUs

We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.

Colin Salmon

ChildrenSchoolChairLostSkills

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

Corbin Bernsen

Looking ForwardLookingForwardPlay

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

Clint Eastwood

PeopleViewPoint Of ViewAlwaysWho

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Robin Sloan