Walter Kirn Quotes

No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

Walter Kirn

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FaceYouSeriouslyMatterAnything

I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.

John Grant

SoulBelieveDieKnowWillTake

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.

John James Audubon

GoodGood HealthHealthDayWine

To go straight to 'Scandal' and get to play the larger-than-life guy who has the page-long rants and gets drilled in the leg with blood flying everywhere, it was a blast. It's really been a nice counterpoint after the first season of 'The Carrie Diaries.'

Matt Letscher

FlyingPlayGoNiceBloodFirst

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

Jeffrey Eugenides

WorkKnowAlwaysFalseBecauseHow

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

Jeff Ament

PlayGoingJustEverybodyFinished

Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.

Michael Bennet

ServiceNetworkingDataPrivacyMore

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Amber Heard

TimeSpeedBadLimitStayGet

I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.

Sigourney Weaver

ProudYouPersonKnowDoneWant

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Troian Bellisario

MomTelevisionDirectorSuccessful

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Robert Falcon Scott

PatienceImaginationWaitingTrying

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Robert Trout

UglyIndiaChinaEmpireBritish

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

Martin Parr

GraceLaughAbilityUsOurselves

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