Katherine Boo Quotes

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

Katherine Boo

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PeopleRichPlacesPoorTalkMumbai

When you are a public personality, you can't afford to be a recluse.

Sridevi

PersonalityYouReclusePublic

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

ProblemBackComeLikeTakingShop

So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary - films about the hugely varied forms of life that eat, sleep, stalk, mate, fight, thrive, suffer and struggle on our dear and embattled old Earth.

Tom Shales

LifeNatureStruggleSleepFight

I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.

Tom Ford

WorkLoveMoneyMeControlProud

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

Rob Marshall

YouWayFilmmakerWriterCertain

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

Robert Baden-Powell

YourselfYouMatterHimHurryGoing

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu

GodDiversityPeopleAmazingImage

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

Chris Gardner

ArtMomentGameYouJumpRight

Natural beauty products are a must! I use coconut oil-based RMS makeup, and I slather almond oil on my hands to soak while I watch a movie.

Phoebe Tonkin

BeautyNatural BeautyMakeupHands

There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

PhysicsResultsWillTalkGeneral

So much about being a director is getting the show ready for that first preview audience. I have a lot of experience making events that only happen once; it's opening and closing night in the same three-hour span.

Thomas Kail

ExperienceNightReadyClosingFirst

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

Rick Springfield

ThinkEnoughEverFeelsAnyone

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