Michael Pollan Quotes

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

Michael Pollan

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FoodMoreIndustryDemandSensitive

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

Anna Faris

WorkWomenGreatChallengeMeYou

I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.

Stellan Skarsgard

MoralityAlwaysContractsSignMade

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

Stuart Townsend

WantInputRecognizedReallyAlso

It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.

Trevor Paglen

TimeSpacePeopleLookingLanguage

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Roger Ascham

EducationLearningExperienceYear

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Mason Cooley

MoreFaultsVirtuesThanOurTied

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

Matt Bomer

TimeMyselfImaginationTreesWild

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

Dionne Warwick

PathPeopleMeDownEntertainment

With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't.

Dick Durbin

RestTaxNewBurdenPayUs

Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.

Claire Messud

LifeLivingPointlessRushingYour

I started directing on 'The Wire.'

Anthony Hemingway

StartedDirectingWire

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.

Thomas Dolby

TechnologyQualityMeViewWhyHigh

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