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Gary Shteyngart Quotes

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

Gary Shteyngart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 5, 1972

Topics

Advertising Book Subway Things Going

In Brazil, you buy tickets to go to the stadium to watch the carnival, but in Trinidad, you buy a costume and take part. There are very few things that can rival that experience.

Jillionaire

Experience You Go Brazil Buy Watch

There's certain things that people hold as truth but that are not always necessarily true.

Jeremy Podeswa

Truth People True Always Hold

I believe that Bitcoin holds value as a form of 'good money' that is superior to any previously discovered or developed form of money.

Jeremy Allaire

Good Money Value Believe I Believe

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

Max Bill

Work Nature Art Balance Harmony

I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

Jeff Bridges

Myself Perfect Target Pretty Far

I pretty much made a conscious decision to make projects a lot of people can relate to.

Trevor Paglen

Decision People Pretty Made Much

My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.

Tom Hollander

Parents People Lovely Aspire Like

Growing up in Silicon Valley, during my time at Morgan Stanley and as a member of Stanford's Board, I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.

Ruth Porat

Daily Opportunity Time Experience Up

My mother is getting up there in age, and sometimes I go visit her in Florida. I cook for all of her friends. Sometimes I have to avoid the table because I do not want to hear what they're talking about.

Romany Malco

Mother Age Friends Talking Table Go

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

Michael Keaton

Think Better Someone Right Always

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Life Problems Hard Because Spite

I think complacency is what you allow it to be.

Draymond Green

Complacency Think You Allow I Think