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Roberta Smith Quotes

Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.

Roberta Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american

Topics

Sister World Serious Say Hacker

Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Writing Book Story You Way Never

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

Jessica Alba

Culture People Talk Ghosts See Just

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.

Joel Madden

Dog Business Morning Coffee Day

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

Matthew Quick

Travel People Someone You Place Say

I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.

America Ferrera

Work Think Long Done Three Nothing

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Stanislaw Lem

Chance Reality Dream Triumph Will

If you work in the studio system in America, they've almost got to the point where a computer programme could write scripts. Effectively, they hire and fire enough writers until they get something generic.

Simon Beaufoy

Work Fire America Enough You Write

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

Rory Stewart

Mountain Doing You Look Context

I have overcome some demons in my path.

Rose Namajunas

Path Demons Overcome Some

We will build the city from scratch. It will be drone-friendly and a center for the development of robotics. We want to create something different. Neom is a place for dreamers who want to create something new in the world, something extraordinary.

Mohammad bin Salman

City World Place Create New Want

People complain about Hollywood movies being similar. That goes right down to the fundamental green light process, because the process involves having to compare it to three other movies.

Jason Blum

Light People Green Process Down

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Jason Mraz

Me You Website Started Would Send