James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.
Sarah Hall
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
Joe Wright
ArtDivisionFilmBetweenCommercial
Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals.
Meg Rosoff
JobPeopleUnhappyKnowLeaveBooks
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
LookEconomicFunctionAstrology
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes
PowerIdeasMayGreaterErrorsThan
I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.
Jeff Baena
MyselfExperienceI AmPeopleStrong
Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.
Michael Caine
LiveSelfishRestaurantGoWant
Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.
Trinny Woodall
WomenAgeKnowWantScreenBritish
I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way we've all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there's only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That's as damaging as anything else.
Shonda Rhimes
TimeBlackWhiteSayWayAnything
I have a transient lifestyle. America is where I come to work, but my home is London. I like being bi-continental.
Tom Ellis
WorkHomeAmericaLifestyleLondon
You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.
Rudy Giuliani
MyselfPeopleMeStrongThinkYou
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
Lisa Murkowski
HistoryUglyEndVotingAmerican
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch - old Westerns and stuff that wasn't vulgar or violent at all.
Jason Isbell
TelevisionGrandfatherNothingRoof
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