David Remnick Quotes

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

David Remnick

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LifeChangeGoodAchievementMoving

I save the rage for the stage.

Jimmy Smits

StageRageSave

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

Jessie Ware

LifeGoodMusicShelfGood Music

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

John Eldredge

AgeMenTrueNeverWhateverMost

I love being on set.

Michael De Luca

LoveBeingSetI Love

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.

Jeff Lemire

WindStoryMysteryLongYouRun

My grandfather on my dad's side was the first in our family to settle in the U.K. He came from Pakistan on his own in the '60s and worked in a cotton mill in Bolton, earning enough to bring over the rest of his family. My dad, Shah, was only about eight when he came to this country. Like most immigrants, he has a fierce work ethic.

Amir Khan

WorkFamilyRestWork EthicFierce

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Alvin Dark

LoveMeLordLastTo LoveEverybody

I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.

Stella Young

StrengthGrowthExperiencePeople

We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The CIA also started funding other intelligence services in order to use them as proxies. We also know that some of these collaborations were kept off the record; supposedly, there is no paper trail.

Trevor Paglen

IntelligenceTrailKnowUpStarted

I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.

Tom Riley

LoveWeatherBuildingMotivationBad

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

Robert Barany

ProgressProblemsWayMindsMore

It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.

Rory Bremner

MyselfI AmPeopleRoadEndWeird

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