Robin Sloan Quotes

When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you - and on your publisher - to make something that's worth buying in its physical edition.

Robin Sloan

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BookThinkWorthYouBuyingPrint

My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.

Jessica St. Clair

HomeChildhoodParentsOldTwoHalf

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.

John Lithgow

FunPeopleExpectationsComedyYou

I think a comedian has to be low status on some level; that gives you the right to do all sorts of jokes about all sorts of different kinds of people.

Stewart Lee

PeopleThinkYouRightJokesStatus

Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.

Jon Favreau

BusinessPowerFoodRestaurantDown

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

Jon Ronson

GoodFeel GoodLookingFeelPlace

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

Derek Jeter

WinYouGamesLineUpBig

My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet!

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

PersonalityStrongGrandfatherIron

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

Claire Tomalin

MorningMemoriesFootballMenBaby

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Boyd Holbrook

WorkWantKindsDirectorsFilms

My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.

Pink

MomNeverSheWantedReally

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

Suzanne Farrell

AmazingBodySituationThingsReally

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Shane Carruth

DayChoicesFilmmakingImportant

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