Wilbur Ross Quotes

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

Wilbur Ross

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The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.

Steve Erickson

TechnologyAttentionDarkNewMovies

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

Rohinton Mistry

DetailWorldDetailsYouWriteReal

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

Michelangelo Antonioni

SpaceSayWantMeanSeeEmpty

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Miriam Toews

SmallYearsMiddleTownCanadian

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

JR

WorkBestPeopleCityControlBook

I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.

Clotilde Hesme

TheatreCareYouFindCinemaImage

I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.

August Wilson

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All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.

Peter York

FashionPressureGrowDesignLuxury

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

Nicole Holofcener

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You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.

Ryan Gosling

CrazyHairYouKnowAnythingUs

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Mortimer Adler

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I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

Kenny Chesney

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