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Alexander Walker Quotes

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.

Alexander Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1837 - 1889

Topics

World Cinema Now Hollywood Europe

The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff.

Jerry Zucker

Best Want Always Buy Stuff Most

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

Andrew Sean Greer

Me Think Up Suburbs Shaped Much

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One less thing to worry about.

Anderson Cooper

Black And White Black Better Worry

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

John Mayer

Place Kind Understand Emotion Need

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

John Simm

Success Judge You Even Means Brings

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

Steve Jobs

Day Think You Apple Know More

Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid.

Steven R. McQueen

Live Reputation Think Pressure Doing

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.

Siri Hustvedt

Time New Mental Illness Illness Get

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

Tom Stoppard

Think Difficult Writer I Think

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Mary Oliver

Life Poetry You Way Out Empty

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

Atul Gawande

Writing Moral Insight Combination

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

Shania Twain

Life People Deep Learn Want Talk