Patti Smith Quotes

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Patti Smith

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CommunicationNewHollywoodComing

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.

Jill Lepore

TimeBookNewFirst TimePrinting

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

Jerry Garcia

ThinkFeelSuccessfulBooksFact

Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I'm grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often.

Jennette McCurdy

LiveGreatGratefulCoolHonorWill

Never argue; repeat your assertion.

Robert Owen

NeverRepeatYourArgueAssertion

We have a lot of bad leaders around the world that operate in ways we would never tolerate in the United States.

Jeff Sessions

WorldBadNeverUnitedUnited States

A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can't imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.

Sonny Mehta

WorkGoodBookReadingOfficeJust

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

Rodney Dangerfield

GodUglyMeKnowSaidBartender

I'm a great lover of ballads.

Ry Cooder

GreatLoverBallads

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

Moby

MusicPeopleFinancialMoreJust

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

Jason Reitman

LifeLiveExperienceFunThought

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Alice Meynell

HumorLaughterSense Of HumorAct

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Alison Gopnik

PeopleReadingDoingYouDownSay

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