I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.
We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
Each and every individual is magnetic ; one way attracts, the other way is just opposite !
People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic.
