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Walter Kirn Quotes

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

Walter Kirn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1962

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It's ridiculous that Claire Foy got paid less than Matt Smith on 'The Crown.' That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Jessie Buckley

Crown Ridiculous No Sense Paid Sense

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

Jeff Merkley

Children Energy Better Create Clean

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Steven Spielberg

Storytelling Make Unconventional Like

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

Tony Jaa

Failure Improvement Stone Will Never

'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.

Tom Shales

Radio Original Cop Come Shows

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Robert Frost

Hands You Stone First Him Without

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Bob Marley

Me America You Born Wrong Right

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

Seth Rogen

Saying Weird You Say Actor Seems

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Norman McLaren

Drawing Harmony I Can Create More

You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people.

Rickey Medlocke

People You Look Young Old See

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

Richard Marx

Think My Own More Own Remembered He

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

Richard Morris

Music Always Been Roman Had Liturgy