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Robert Towne Quotes

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 23, 1934

Topics

Past Back Place Drama Going Almost

A common mistake among new entrepreneurs who have raised large rounds is that they have essentially infinite resources.

Mistake New Infinite Resources Who

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.

Yourself You Know Will Never Fix

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a either black gay or a lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works.

Jeremy Clarkson

Black Problem Television Gay Cheese

I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?

Parents City Me Think Thought Doing

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

Water Feel Fish America Now True

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

Opportunity Inequality Country Class

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

Art Painting Fashion Someone Drawing

You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.

Women Service Men War Support Doing

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

I Am Proud Literature Important

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

Lloyd Blankfein

Work Love Over Years Out Pretty

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

Together Sun Meaning Earth Sacred

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

Age Personal Human Last Machine

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