Ben Fountain Quotes

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

Ben Fountain

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We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.

Jerry Robinson

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'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Jerry Saltz

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High culture isn't what it used to be.

Andrew O'Hagan

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I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Ronaldinho

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The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

Michelle Yeoh

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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

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I'm not saying the N word anymore.

Lisa Lampanelli

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There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

Davy Jones

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Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

Christina Aguilera

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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Brenda Ueland

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It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.

Alison Goldfrapp

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