Janine di Giovanni Quotes

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

Janine di Giovanni

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LiveWhiteParisPoorNeverOut

Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.

John Lasseter

DetailFeelYouFurnitureSeeFine

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Jean Paul

ChangeWisdomStrongSituationOut

One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion space is because the bedrock of visual storytelling is the reverse angle. If you can't look into the eyes of the protagonist, you cannot hold people's attention for more than 15 minutes.

Steven Soderbergh

EyesSpacePeopleThinkRealityYou

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

Louise Leakey

TechnologyTodayGreatBackFind

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

Lucas Papademos

SurpriseWayExpectSoonHappens

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

JobPeopleSome PeopleDifficultUp

We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.

Christopher Miller

LearningEarlyHelpfulShareOur

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

Christa McAuliffe

SpaceGoDoneWillGiveTour

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

Annie Parisse

I AmWayPhotographerArtsVisual

The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are they likeable? Do you want to invite them to dinner?

Alison Owen

DinnerInterestingYouWantKeepUs

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

Wislawa Szymborska

BeginningBookEventsAlwaysOpen

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

Peter Arnett

BeginningPeopleInformationSay

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