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Michelle Dean Quotes

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1983

Topics

Beautiful Humanity Nothing Tell Us

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

Women Day Men War Brave Fighting

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

Love You Down Way Sit Publish

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

Music Trust Me Control Small Find

Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride.

Women Practice Identity Pride Kind

There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires an exceptional level of creativity and attention to detail.

Creativity Cake Chef Detail Baking

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Good Moving Forward Moving Writing

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Laughter Anxiety Doing Find Tragedy

When I was a kid, there was nothing better than water balloon fights. I grew up in Brooklyn: we had the fire hydrants, and we would open up a soda can at both ends and squirt people walking by. I love the kinds of things that encourage you to let your guard down, be open and vulnerable, and just to be laughing sincerely.

Love Water Fire People Better You

We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.

Christina Ricci

Travel Pride Remember Excitement

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

Great Politics Story I Can Know Get

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Work You Done Happen Eggs Get

When you give a homemade gift, you are giving a part of yourself to the recipient. You can't do that with a mass-produced item.

Mark Frauenfelder

Yourself Gift Giving You Give Part

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