Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

Garth Risk Hallberg

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MomentWaitWorldSmallEveningYou

There's so many great things that happened at the Grand Ole Opry in 50 years. You get the chance to go out and visit with your peers. You get a chance to sing your song and say hello to so many friends and neighbors and all that you have. It's just - well, it's a second home.

Jim Ed Brown

HomeGreatSongChanceFriendsYou

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

Johannes Kepler

FocusSpaceSunPlanetsMove

When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.

Joel Silver

TimeViewFirst TimeFirstThings

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

John Green

CityPlaceChicagoFirstWhere

Feminism insists on women's right to make choices - about whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to combine work and family or to focus on one over the other. It also urges men and women to share the joys and burdens of family life and calls on society to place a higher priority on supporting caregiving work.

Stephanie Coontz

LifeWorkFamilyWomenChildrenMen

I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.

Tony Gilroy

LifeLookingInterestingMy LifeTry

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

Romola Garai

GirlPowerMenWomanPeopleYou

I don't think that anyone in the pages of 'War on Peace' is arguing that diplomacy is the replacement for military power. But, correctly, the job of the military is to think tactically.

Ronan Farrow

PowerJobPeaceWarThinkMilitary

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

Roz Chast

MotherTogetherParentsOldPoint

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

Jonathan Krohn

BelieveKeyYouI BelievePolicy

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

Derek Cianfrance

MeFeelMoviesWhyUnderstandNeed

I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.

Deborah Moggach

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