Joshua Foer Quotes

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

Joshua Foer

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The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That was through the movies, actually - through Olivier's 'Hamlet.' That was the first thing that got me to fall in love with Shakespeare and movies and everything in one big preadolescent rush.

John Logan

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Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

Stephen Chow

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The first thing I do when I wake up is take a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, and vitamins, and then I look at my dogs. I have three dogs, Rosa, Toto, and Mimmo, all Labradors.

Stefano Gabbana

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Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

Martin Parr

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I knew very early what I wanted to do, and I considered myself lucky to know that's what I wanted, even in a place like Saint Lucia where there was no publishing house and no theatre.

Derek Walcott

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If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

Dean Koontz

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When I go to parties, there's a moment when I think, 'I really don't belong here.'

Cheri Oteri

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I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.

Chris Pine

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I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

Placido Domingo

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There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.

Sharan Burrow

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Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.

Tinie Tempah

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Besides offering desirable products, the Free People brand continue to produce some of the most compelling imagery and customer engagement in the industry.

Richard Hayne

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