Walter Kirn Quotes

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.

Walter Kirn

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WorkDoubtEarlyCriticsHigh

All the media have their own award presentations.

Robert Preston

MediaAwardOwn

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Anna Akhmatova

HeartWomanDeathWillNeverShe

Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get.

Michael Biehn

LifeBestDeathFightMeGun

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

John Robinson

RespectMePressureYouLookKnow

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Stephen Fry

LoveChildrenMeDriveLiterature

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Robert Burton

PowerMenAmbitionSucceedWillWho

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Mason Cooley

KindnessMoneyEverythingAlmost

I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot.

Jonathan Levine

DriveUsedAroundLotConvertible

There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

Donnie Yen

CoolFlyingThinkThinkingYouLook

We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.

Brad Garrett

CareTake CareTeachersTopTake

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Bob Geldof

PeopleOrganizationWorldThinkPoor

You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.

Anouska Hempel

HopeBestYouGotJustAround

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