Rick Smolan Quotes

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

Rick Smolan

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I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time.

Andrew Solomon

LoveTimeReadingStorySomeone

I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.

Maura Tierney

BrainThinkYouGetting OldOld

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

Amy Lee

HappyBe HappyYouWantMiserable

My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers.

Steven Cojocaru

PhoneCell PhonesPhonesOffBeen

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Truman Capote

WritingWorthTalkThingsLikeTV

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

Joyce Carol Oates

BeautifulExperiencePeopleThoughts

I'm a Levi's guy.

Chris Gardner

GuyLevi

And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

Brian Mulroney

LookBigGuyWhoWantedDid

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

FirePeopleWeatherAnimalsEnemies

I'm not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning awards in general.

Seth Rogen

WinningAwardsGuyMostGeneral

I'm not perfect - I'm human, and I can make mistakes - but I'm always going to fight clean; I'm always going to go out there and try to put on a good show.

Tim Kennedy

GoodMistakesFightNot PerfectGo

There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking the living. The real power of such a story lies with the undercurrent of hopelessness compounded by a very real instinct to survive.

Julie Ann Dawson

PowerSurviveStoryLivingDead

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