Nathaniel Rich Quotes

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

Nathaniel Rich

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WorkPoliceMeCriticismYouLook

I've kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.

John Grant

FriendsNew FriendsNewContinue

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

Anna Chlumsky

RelationshipCoffeePeopleThinkYou

I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.

Sigourney Weaver

TimeHateMeThinkUncomfortable

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Tom Brokaw

PeopleRiseHeroesAwayWhoQuietly

It's not about today or tomorrow; it's about building a company that can build the best race cars in the world.

Robby Gordon

TodayBestTomorrowWorldBuilding

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.

Roger Rosenblatt

LifeEyesPoetryColdWhateverUs

I don't think it matters at all if the Bitcoin Foundation were to close.

Roger Ver

FoundationThinkMattersBitcoin

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

Mason Cooley

TalentYouBeingIrritatingYour

I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.

Michel Gondry

MomentLearnEnoughCameraYouFind

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

Michael Strahan

OpportunityTimeMyselfOpportunities

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean de la Bruyere

PatienceManRoadLongWithoutWho

I'm one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, baby.

Deontay Wilder

BusinessBabyRightAlabamaHere

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