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Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'. — Stephen Frears

This nationality business helps you make a great story and satisfies your hunger for ascription of causes. It seems to be the dump site where all explanations go until one can ferret out a more obvious one (such as, say, some evolutionary argument that "makes sense"). Indeed, — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better. — Robert Crawford

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist. — Paul Arden

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford. — Jennifer Lopez

Part of the debtor mentality is a constant, frantically suppressed undercurrent of terror. We have one of the highest debt-to-income ratios in the world, and apparently most of us are two paychecks from the street. Those in power
governments, employers
exploit this, to great effect. Frightened people are obedient
not just physically, but intellectually and emotionally. If your employer tells you to work overtime, and you know that refusing could jeopardize everything you have, then not only do you work the overtime, but you convince yourself that you're doing it voluntarily, out of loyalty to the company; because the alternative is to acknowledge that you are living in terror. Before you know it, you've persuaded yourself that you have a profound emotional attachment to some vast multinational corporation: you've indentured not just your working hours, but your entire thought process. — Tana French

He looked at the paper again. I'm sorry I had to take your penny. Here's another to replace it. — Thea Harrison

But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores. — Samantha Mumba

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation. — Aldous Huxley

I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer's job description. If you don't care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else. — Lawrence Block