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Bruce Sterling Quotes

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

Bruce Sterling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 14, 1954

Topics

Shoes Money Making Money Trouble Up

Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don't see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it's something we should talk about because it's a problem.

Jessica White

Change Fashion Black Problem Talk

Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college.

Robert Reich

Justice Money Government College Try

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

Michael Heizer

Business Art You Schedule Hurry

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Girl New York City Me Growing Up Up

An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.

John Updike

Aging Wait Satisfaction Will Him

I was given a horn at an early age. I never really got a chance to think about doing anything else until I was about 18, when I realized I could do something else if I wanted to. In my teens, I was rolling in it.

Trombone Shorty

Age Chance Think Doing Early Never

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

Mason Cooley

Inevitable Events Only After

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Mike Greenberg

Failure Game Frustration Golf

The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.

Milos Zeman

Independence Holiday I Can Never Out

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

Julia Hartz

Good Rhetoric Around Throwing

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

Jay McInerney

Good Great Creative Writing Mentors

In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

Joshua Cohen

America Prove Whatever Gesture Claim