Jack Zipes Quotes

I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

Jack Zipes

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One of the most pervasive and damaging trends we are seeing in the 21st-century workplace is the deliberate misclassification of workers by employers looking to shift responsibility and cut costs.

Tom Perez

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I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

Ron Moody

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It takes every ounce of my concentration and focus every night to be in character, to sing in good voice, to not fall off the platform. I use my peripheral vision more than I have ever used it in my life.

Ruthie Ann Miles

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A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

Roy Jenkins

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Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

Michael W. Smith

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I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

Michael Sandel

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I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.

Jonny Greenwood

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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

Bruce Jackson

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If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

William S. Burroughs

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There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

Paula Fox

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My makeup is usually left over from the night before.

Kesha

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