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Keith Gessen Quotes

In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1975

Topics

Long Inside Cancer Essay Whale

We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.

Goals Technology Community Achieve

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

Man Opinion Will Always Greatest

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

Journey Art Process White Alive Now

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

World Song Small Thinking You Out

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

Political Comedy Always Been

'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.

Me Kid Malcolm X Malcolm

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Fate Dark Go Places Beyond Your

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

Home Broken Child Growing Up Key Up

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

Women Men Person Movies More Irony

You want the audience to be in the character's shoes. The more deeply into the character's shoes the audience is, the more they're going to care about what's going on.

Character Shoes Care You Want More

I don't think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.

Think Enough Things Majority Simply

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

Life Time School Child First Time

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