Alan Taylor Quotes

Most people aren't lying awake at night worrying about a nuclear threat. But we are unnerved by a lot of how technology is coming into our lives and starting to infuse our lives. And we question whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Alan Taylor

Recitation: by Male by Female

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I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

Jennifer Egan

GreatMindMeIdeasWritingThink

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

Jennifer Aniston

RelationshipMeSurviveTopCherry

The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.

Andrew Solomon

DepressionAnxietyFirstSixPhase

People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to me, is like asking which chopstick is the fork. This pressure on us to embody normative traditions can be paralysing.

Andrew Solomon

FriendPeopleMeMomHusbandAsking

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

Max McKeown

CatsSheepSayWantIndependentOwn

Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.

John Lanchester

FreedomMoneyPracticeFreeDoing

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

John Major

PatiencePoliticsGameLongRun

The school suit allows me to be an extrovert. Basically, I'm the opposite of what I am on stage.

Angus Young

SchoolI AmMeStageSuitOpposite

Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'

Anne Wojcicki

LifeMy LifeSomeoneSavedEvery

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.

Anne Wilson Schaef

ValueMedicineMoreRealHerbsSide

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

Philip Kaufman

ThinkAmericaGoRelationshipsAdult

To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

Peter Shilton

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