Gary Shteyngart Quotes

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

Gary Shteyngart

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DayWritingGameThinkAmericaLong

The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.

Jerry Della Femina

DayKingAdvertisingInternetNow

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Joel Osteen

PositiveI AmMeThinkDownKind

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

Jennifer Gilmore

ChoicesStoryYouKnowSayWill

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

Jennifer Granholm

GreatWaterLegacyDoneNothingAct

I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.

John Legend

HistoryGreatArtThinkStorytelling

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Matthew Fox

TrustThinkProcessYouFindKnow

Whether we buy into the rhetoric or not, one thing has been made clear: Illegal immigration is a problem reaching a breaking point, and something must be done.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

ImmigrationProblemDoneRhetoric

I never get into the details regarding my own personal situation.

Jeff Fisher

DetailsSituationPersonalMy Own

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times, they confuse VCs with their friends.

Steve Blank

RelationshipMistakesUnderstanding

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Tom Shales

HeroCameraLongYouWonderMatter

Feminism, as I see it, is not about counting women in key jobs.

Mona Eltahawy

WomenKeyFeminismSeeI SeeAbout

I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.

Michael Keaton

SadFeelGoDeadStillLike

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