Walter Kirn Quotes

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

Walter Kirn

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GoReasonAshamedConOwnArtists

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

Joanne Harris

ThinkYouAlwaysOutsiderI Think

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Jodie Foster

WeekYouKnowFirstDirectorFilm

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

Matthew Rhys

MyselfWindowGameThoughtPlanOut

I'm sure the audiences will connect with 'Yeh Hai Aashiqui,' as it will feature stories inspired from real life.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

LifeWillRealReal LifeConnect

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Jean Rostand

PowerGreatEnoughHumanityMinds

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Stephen Leacock

SunPlanetsAstronomyCorrectUse

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Tony Snow

ThankfulPowerWealthLibertyFlow

The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling the Earth until the sun turns into a red giant about 5 billion years from now.

Trevor Paglen

RedSunEarthCivilizationBecome

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

Roger McGuinn

TogetherMoreSoundOwnStartedGot

One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners.

Louis Tomlinson

TimeFoodBreakfastAmericaSunday

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Diane Wakoski

WorkGoodAcceptancePoetryValues

Horror films are the ones that pay the bills, and historically, they have shown that they are good investments. They helped Universal survive with that initial splash of horror films in the 1930s and '40s. And horror films kept New Line alive with the 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series.

Christopher Young

GoodSurviveAliveNewStreetLine

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