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There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes that wall and basically says, 'Self-promote or die.' And that is a bad head for any sort of artist to be forced into. Jonathan Franzen

Technology Says Bad Rather Head Between Forced Sort Wall Die Any Artist Public Gallery Used Serious Publisher Buying Basically

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly. Jonathan Franzen

Think Find Unpleasant Rather More More Or Less Write Shape Along Know Still Doing Quickly Rewrite Process Then Used Hard Less

I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then. Jonathan Galassi

Work Together Book Slow Poet First Though Rather Had Mainly Italian Work Together Then Translations Published Nearly Starter Gather

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created. Jonathan Galassi

Work Distributor Rather Been Created Publisher

I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.' Jonathan Jackson

Great Hero Heroes Hood Favorite Great Film Characters Would Rather Robin Robin Hood Fictional Really Film Portray Last

Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly. Jonathan Levine

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. Jonathan Sacks

War Government Freedom History Change Events Old Revolution Guard Later Hopes Civil Civil War Dashed Rather More Sooner Mass New Protest Replacement Than Often Creates Shows Streets Raised

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts. Jonathan Safran Foer

Best Family History Conversation Better Will Animals Our Way Follow Able Eating About Rather More Habits Allowed Better Way Instincts Like Talk Accept Just Them Ignore Even Things Need

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh. Jonathan Shapiro

Laugh Out Someone Rather Primarily Commentator Than Get Social Belly

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies. Jonathan Zittrain

Work Buy Music Digital Own Books Physical Ongoing Rather Consumers Counterparts Contract Than Often Different Copies

So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' rather, but I don't think it. You know, so, I don't go around thinking this. I'm really hard on myself. I think that's quite good. Jorja Smith

Myself Good Me You People Amazing Think Thinking Tell Rather Know Around Go Quite So Many People Really Hard Many

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it. Jose Andres

Alone People Tree Would Rather Island Lot Get Prefer Palm

I think the frustration you can get into as a young artist is when you realize your limitations, but you want to accomplish that rather than seeing that you don't have to do everything. Just focus on your strengths. Jose James

You Frustration Focus Young Think Everything Seeing Rather Limitations Accomplish Than Get Artist Just Want Young Artist Realize Your Strengths

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses. Jose Serrano

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. Joseph Addison

Communicate World Worth Ought Critic Rather Imperfections Writer Observation Beauties True Concealed Discover Than Dwell Such Things Things

Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is. Joseph Bologna

The literature from which I come is rather large. Joseph Brodsky

Rather Come Literature Which Large

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity. Joseph Nye

Values Rather Rests Shared Than America Ethnicity

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. Joseph Pulitzer

Work Hard Work Day Words Style Thinking Way Would Ten Rather Weighing Concentrated Sort Readily Polish Lines Revision Article Intense Represent Might Hard Whole Twenty

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating. Josh Hartnett

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I have a very thick skin altogether - surprisingly, many actors are rather fragile, but I get that of the 10 million people watching an episode, probably 3 million hate me, and I'm comfortable with that. Joshua Malina

Me Hate People Skin Rather Comfortable Altogether Surprisingly Very Get Episode Many Thick Actor Thick Skin Million Million People Watching Fragile

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it's just trying to peel away and see what's underneath them. That to me is really fun. Joss Whedon

Me You Heroes Peel Rules Television Television Show See Rather Stuck Never Knew Underneath Doing Up Than Trying Just Different Tire Break Them Then Much Really Certain Show Fun Growing Growing Up Away Set

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