Randall Munroe Quotes

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

Randall Munroe

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LifeWorldYouEarlyWantTell

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that.

Melissa Rosenberg

ChangeCharacterGreatTimeBookUp

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

McKayla Maroney

PositiveLightYourselfPeopleYou

I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.

Andy Richter

FunnyGoodBackWantOutGoing

It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.

Roop Durgapal

CharacterNegativeBetterPlayLead

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

Ronald Biggs

TruckYearDrunkNewNiceBox

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

Miguel Ferrer

PlaySingDrumsDid

The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy.

Janet Yellen

CommunicationGreatChallengesWorld

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

Janine di Giovanni

MemoryShortHumanFickleTerribly

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Diane Ackerman

MindSmallGardenEmbraceStruggles

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.

Corey Reynolds

EyesPersonalityFeelTelevision

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

Courteney Cox

ImaginationPersonStretchPassive

'90125' was our biggest-selling album worldwide.

Chris Squire

OurAlbumWorldwide

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