Eula Biss Quotes

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

Eula Biss

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TimeCollegeBookBecomeFirstIdea

If you just analyze, historically, the chances of getting two quarters of more than a 5 percent gain in the dollar index, it has happened only two times since the '70s, so it's very rare.

Jens Nordvig

YouMoreTwoDollarRareChances

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

Andrew Weil

TechnologyProgressShadowSafety

Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.

Andrea Seigel

CharacterPeopleWritingYouPage

The only thing you need to set up a business school is a warm body and a piece of chalk.

John Quelch

BusinessSchoolWarmYouBodyNeed

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

Spike Jonze

WorkFailureGoodThoughtOkayWell

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.

Mira Nair

WorkBeginningSmallNobodyMy Own

You cry the first tear because something is genuinely, singularly upsetting. And you cry the second tear because everybody is crying that first tear with you, and you know that.

Joshua Oppenheimer

YouKnowCryFirstSomethingCrying

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Joseph Wood Krutch

TimeLosingGameMeaningTrying

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.

Denis Villeneuve

PeopleIdeasEgoDirectionBetter

You have to have faith in yourself, keep believing and sticking to the game plan, and hope when the chance does come, one of you will put it away.

Dele Alli

FaithHopeYourselfGameChanceYou

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

William James

AwarenessBeingSimplyKnownMeans

I believe it's my position as a partner to make the other feel secure. I'm very loving and very into my partners when I am with them. I just want them to feel safe.

Ricky Whittle

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