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Virginia Postrel Quotes

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

Human Reason Jeans Psychology Like

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

Will Somebody Like Needs Them

Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.

Life Death Medical Mystery Trying

I can't leave anywhere without making my bed; it's ingrained.

Bed Without Leave Anywhere Making

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

Happy Career Place Know Risk Scared

My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.

Family Home Politics Looking Busy

Was there ever anyone more ill-suited for being the showman of the year than me?

Me Year More Being Than Ever

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

Women God Men Colleagues Think More

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

Style Think Name Better You Mean

From my second son Gustav, I bought one of his complaints for 200 kroner. He was complaining that he was a middle child - he wasn't the beloved first child, and he wasn't the cute little youngest child. So I said, can I use that same wording in a film? And he said yeah. So I bought it from him.

Stellan Skarsgard

Son Cute Child Said Complaining Him

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Inspirational Music Football Theatre

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

Steven Spielberg

Time School Think Chapter Finish

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women Gender Line Cage Pedestal

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