Drew Curtis Quotes

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Drew Curtis

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PeopleBelieveMediaTalkingNews

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Jim Rohn

TruthPeopleInterestingLiterature

Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is a world out there.

Jennifer Egan

LoveMeWorldThinkingJournalism

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

Matt Taibbi

TimePeopleThinkYouKnowKind

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.

John Tyler Bonner

HardExplainVarietyNaturalSpecies

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

ChildrenMoneyMenEatingBecome

I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.

Steven Hall

LoveTimeCityBookGlassFirst

I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

Rivers Cuomo

LoveBridgeWritingStartYouBad

Dance is in my background.

Rutina Wesley

DanceBackground

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

Martin Scorsese

ExperienceCreativeMeYouMatter

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Mignon McLaughlin

MoneyPeopleCountSpoilWhomThem

What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?

Mike D

JusticeValuesCountryOwnBeenOur

I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

Jonas Armstrong

JobMeThinkHoodIndiaCocky

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