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Virginia Postrel Quotes

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Service Care Media Big Because Like

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

People Ideas New Why Understand Old

Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.

Jeremy Northam

Job People Doing New Done Movies

As a young boy growing up in New York City, we would spend our summers on the South Fork of Long Island. My dad would take me down to the beach at low tide. We would walk a mile down to the jetties, and he would lower me by my ankles into the crevices between the massive boulders to grab at huge ropes of mussels.

Andrew Zimmern

Beach Walk New York City Growing Up

People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It's still like that. 'That Thing you Do!' was a big thing. It's always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I'm still acting. 'I've seen all your movies. What are you doing now?' Ha ha!

Steve Zahn

People Me Little Things Doing Acting

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Tom Stoppard

People Think Kind Way Real Tension

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Moment Together Get Together You Say

I don't actually think I'm treated unfairly or anything. If anything, I sometimes can't understand why I don't see myself and the people I know represented more in films. Unless I'm going to go out and write them myself, I don't feel like I can really complain about it.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Myself People Think Feel I Can Know

Alan Alda is a dear friend, nothing like the cynical, bitter Hawkeye.

Loretta Swit

Friend Nothing Bitter Cynical Like

That's the great thing about being a director. You have your list of things you have to worry about and things you don't have to worry about. If you can hire someone or cast someone who equates to not having to worry about, it's great!

Jonathan Levine

Great Someone Worry You Director

The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

Don Rose

War Control Foundation Think You

Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

Christian Louboutin

Service Yourself I Am People Artist

Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not.

Christy Turlington

Children Die Year Lost More Up