Dana Spiotta Quotes

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

Dana Spiotta

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The fear that ultimately leads to hate is something we need to change, and I want to do whatever I can to make the world a better place.

Matt Hardy

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I didn't become an actor for the money, so I can't stay with a job for that reason. I did too many years of theater where you just get by from month to month, happily, to make that a priority.

Jean Smart

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I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.

Amy Cuddy

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Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet.

Lou Barlow

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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

Dennis Ritchie

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I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

Chevy Chase

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Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Brooke Shields

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Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Anton Rubinstein

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I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

Phil Keoghan

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I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.

Phil Robertson

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I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I'd like to try and show that there is a future.

Paul Weller

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Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

Sharad Pawar

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