Ian Rankin I have a strong work ethic, yet I’m incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you do can be called research. Sitting in the pub is research. Reading the newspaper can be research. – Ian Rankin Called Quotes Ethic Quotes Incredibly Quotes Lazy Quotes Newspaper Quotes Pub Quotes Reading Quotes Sitting Quotes Strong Quotes Writer Quotes My parents were working class and didn’t have much money, so holidays tended to be two weeks in a caravan at St. Andrews or a B&B in Blackpool. My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in an office preparing the charts for the boats and the submarines before they headed out.
Betty Gilpin Wrestling introduced me to the idea that my body has a purpose besides trying to look five years younger for the first time. – Betty Gilpin
Madeline Brewer Fullscreen is doing some really interesting work. They are taking these YouTube stars and people who have made entire careers out of social media and bringing them into an even bigger limelight on a new entrepreneur platform – and that’s fascinating! That’s genius to me. – Madeline Brewer
Andrew Sullivan The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting. – Andrew Sullivan
Cliff Chiang After a couple of years at Vertigo, I realized that if I was going to be a professional artist, I’d have to devote myself to it full time, so I ended up leaving my job there and went freelance. – Cliff Chiang
Michael Giacchino Lost’ is such a thematic show that I’m always afraid that if I know something’s going to happen at the end, I’ll subconsciously write something in where someone who’s astute will go, ‘Oh, he used so-and-so’s theme: that must mean so-and-so is coming back!’ – Michael Giacchino
Jean-Georges Vongerichten I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers’ market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong. – Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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