Joshua Foer Quotes

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Joshua Foer

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Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

Jim McKay

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Stephen Colbert

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When I left New York, not a lot of shows were happening there, but 'Golden Boy' is such a New York show.

Stella Maeve

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As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the ideal image.

Stephanie Coontz

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I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

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It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

Trisha Goddard

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What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.

Ron Johnson

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My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.

Miley Cyrus

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I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

Judi Dench

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I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

Jason Isaacs

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I've seen the enemy we face up close. Radical Islamist jihadists are a direct threat to our nation and to Colorado. I know what it takes to defeat this enemy.

Jon Keyser

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