Tatiana de Rosnay Quotes

The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.

Tatiana de Rosnay

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BookAttentionYouLostImportant

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

Joe Rogan

FunnyMeLaughTalkingMoviesNever

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

Amanda Palmer

TimeCreativeHappyEnergySell

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

Tony Kushner

PeopleEconomicsSocialismGayTalk

Clean energy is the ultimate growth strategy for our economy - one that would add millions more good-paying jobs right here in the United States.

Tom Steyer

GrowthEnergyStrategyCleanEconomy

The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

Jonathan Krohn

PeopleMePresidentComeAfterHad

In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.

David Whyte

HeartTimePeopleTraditionWay

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

Chris Jordan

WindowLookingLookRealAspire

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working.

Courtney Barnett

FunnyTimeRomanticPeopleMeThink

When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.

Craig Bruce

YouBackPlaceFirstFinishedPut

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Chris Milk

LovePowerEyesGreatLookMean

YouTube is so quick and so instant, and you make a video, and you can upload it the same day, whereas with a book, you have to go through a lot of time and a lot of people and a lot of processes. So it was weird to sit down and work with other people on projects, because I'm so independent with YouTube.

Connor Franta

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You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

Chuck Hagel

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