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Cory Doctorow Quotes

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

Cory Doctorow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: July 17, 1971

Topics

Day Little Girls Gold Story Doing

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

Jim Rash

Beginning Writing End Teach Sketch

I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

John Knoll

Hobby Kind Everything Gone Something

I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.

Robert Lepage

Father Mother Up Different Who Were

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Robert H. Schuller

You Want Will Never Realize Reason

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Love Forgive Tender Most Part Tis

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Townes Van Zandt

Know Kind Why Write Normal Guy

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

People Me Think True Upset Years

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

Mary Schmich

Love Good Mother Grief Death Energy

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Mila Kunis

Work I Am Wait Back I Can Want

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Michelle Williams

Heart Time Grief River Moving You

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

Michael Moore

Daily Words Socialism Capitalism Say

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Lord Byron

Beginning Necessity Sense Atonement