Walter Kirn Quotes

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

Walter Kirn

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YouChooseWayBattlesThingsAble

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

DemocracyRememberSuicideLongMore

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.

Joel Coen

CharacterPeopleDoingTalkingYou

I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecules into an egg, and hence into embryonic cells.

John Gurdon

EggCellsUsedIntroduceTransfer

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

John F. Kerry

AngerPoetryEnergyThinkBetter

I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

Robert Kiyosaki

BusinessMoneyPeopleLoseAlways

Libraries are where it all begins.

Rita Dove

WhereBeginsLibraries

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Robin Trower

StartForwardYouStrivingBelieving

I don't need a Hollywood girl. They're crazy. If you're with an actress, you don't know who you're going to come home to every day. But I wouldn't mind a relationship with the right girl. Every artist needs a muse.

JC Chasez

HomeGirlRelationshipDayMindYou

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

Jason Isbell

LoveI Love YouYourselfYouDown

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

LifeMy LifeSundayI CanFirst

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Demetri Martin

FreedomYouSayStructureThey Say

I never take storms as seriously as I should, which is probably not the way I should be handling it. I think it's to do with growing up in New Orleans and having a hurricane, like, once a week.

Chloe Bridges

Growing UpThinkWeekNewGrowing

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