David Remnick Quotes

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.

David Remnick

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LiveDieMomentsNewKindOkay

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

Michael Hirst

PeopleYouCreateBe NiceKnowNice

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.

Steve Wynn

BusinessUncertaintyAmericaRecovery

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

Tommy Lee Jones

HurtYouTryAnythingFineSteal

I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.

Tom Heinsohn

LoveMoneyBasketballYouPlayAsk

I was a Rosie the Riveter. I'm really proud of that.

Ruth Duccini

ProudReallyRosie

My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.

Jonah Hill

GreatTwoHeroesDramaticJustBoth

I enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.

Diego Luna

ChanceEnjoyWorkingSurprisedMuch

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

Chirlane McCray

PresidentPianoLessonsCounselor

For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.

Colleen Atwood

BeautifulPeopleFashionThinkLong

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

Alison Gopnik

RespectWantPeersSocialTeenagers

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

GoodBestSleepI AmIdeasNight

Everything is politics.

Thomas Mann

PoliticsEverything

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