Walter Kirn Quotes

E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

Walter Kirn

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ConversationPhoneNowLettersWeb

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

Jenifer Lewis

LoveYouTouch

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

Simon Armitage

PoetryThinkLanguageThreeNever

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.

Roy Lichtenstein

ThinkKnowBeingSomethingLike

'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible.

Rupi Kaur

MyselfPoetryMeSayingLanguage

BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big.

Luis Gutierrez

BigBecauseShouldFailedToo

The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.

Joshua Bell

BeautyYouPlayLostKindSound

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Dick Cavett

I AmPracticeWorstAlwaysAnts

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

Christopher Hampton

GoodBookPotentialYouRightFilm

Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.

Bonnie Tyler

ChangeCountryDifferentRecordsSet

We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.

Asif Kapadia

TimeLongLong TimeWorkingBefore

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Sydney Pollack

ArtDanceArchitecturePaintingWay

Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.

Moshe Katsav

GoalsWorldReachOrderDeceive

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