Walter Kirn Quotes

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

Walter Kirn

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I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

Jodie Sweetin

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I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

Jesse Williams

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If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

Meg Wolitzer

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It's a different world because of the Internet and bloggers. Now, every editor is concerned about speed because every minute counts. Speed is more important than content. Whoever gets a review out first becomes the authority.

Robert Hilburn

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Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Maude Adams

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I know when I used to chemically straighten mine, I did it because I wasn't comfortable with my natural hair. I thought it was too poofy, too kinky. So for me, personally, when I started wearing it natural, it felt like I was blossoming because I was letting go of all the dead hair and all the parts of me that had rejected my natural state.

Amandla Stenberg

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When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.

Steven Johnson

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I was the child of refugees.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I like the irony in my work.

Miuccia Prada

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Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

Demetri Martin

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We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

David Walliams

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