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Walter Bagehot Quotes

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877

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Habit People Speech Not Knowing

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.

Life Myself People Think Learn

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

Technology Doing Wrong Why Changes

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

Hair Long Say Never Must Also

I've worked on a set before, know something about cameras, and done some editing.

Know Done Editing Something Set

When I took a couple of years to do the documentaries after I left 'American Morning' - what was I gone for, five years? - I didn't feel that I was floating under the radar.

Soledad O'Brien

Morning American Feel Floating Gone

I'm an actor. Since I was a teenager, I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school. The fluidity of my own personal identity on any given day was further compounded by the changing labels assigned to Asians in general.

Family Culture Day School Identity

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

Martin Scorsese

God Flying Loved Speed Filmmaking

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

Long Brooklyn Born Young Personal

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

Work Politics Make Like Strokes

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

Men War Equal Nuclear War Nuclear

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

Truth You Create Will Out Get

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

Time I Am Silly Feelings Big Waste

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