Fred Wilson Quotes

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Fred Wilson

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To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the Rings' is an epic. But 'The Hobbit' isn't an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it's full of adventures and excitement, they're on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

John Lanchester

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Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

Merv Griffin

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I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Toni Morrison

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To be perfectly honest, I've gotten attention from gay men for a long time.

David Walton

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If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are not quite as engaged as you'd hope, you have to remember there is always somebody who might be falling in love with this world and having an epiphany. I was that person.

Chloe Pirrie

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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Christopher Lasch

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I don't really know why I'm so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I'm even busier!

Brianna Brown

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When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Arlen Specter

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As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.

Anohni

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How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!

William Godwin

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When we see the banks get bailed out with seemingly no consequences while ordinary people pay the price with job and wage cuts through austerity measures, who could blame a person for wondering where the loyalties of their elected leaders really lie?

Sharan Burrow

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In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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