"Paul Newman is simply not an actor and possibly not even alive; seems to be carved from wood, his movements stiff and jerky as a marionette, his one expression an agonized grimace as of wood trying to smile."

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Source : "On Movies".

Dwight Macdonald

#Simple Quotes #Actors Quotes #Alive Quotes

“People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.”
“You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.”
“Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term 'social media' didn't do us any favors. It's not really media. It's more like the telephone, less like the TV.”
“Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.”
“There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.”
“The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, â€œa little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one.”

Source : Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.119, Atlantic Books Ltd
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Wall Street Journal"/"Rahm Emanuel on the Opportunities of Crisis", www.youtube.com. November 19, 2008.
“In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.”

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