D. A. Pennebaker Quotes

I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.

D. A. Pennebaker

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LifePeopleDieEnoughPlaceNever

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

John Gay

GoodEvilNameFriendsChoiceOur

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

Max Levchin

PeopleThinkMediaInformationWant

At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.

John Mackey

BusinessCommunityMoneyBeginning

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

Robert Mapplethorpe

WallsFlowersWithoutHangSell

I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.

Stephen McCauley

LovedBiographyBioVictoriaImmense

Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

Stephenie Meyer

LiveGreatHappyMeVillainYou

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

Steven Price

CommunicationMusicJobEditingOut

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

Shirin Ebadi

ViolenceNothingUsefulMaintain

I'm God because I have the power to control my mind.

Roseanne Barr

GodPowerMindControlBecause

My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul.

Mary Steenburgen

GoodMotherSoulVanityPersonShe

I would like to do commercials, or even work for WWE if they called me. I wouldn't want to go back on the air or manage again, but I would like to be a spokesperson and do stuff like that.

Bobby Heenan

WorkMeBackGoWantAir

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Piers Anthony

YouThingsSenseJustAll Things

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