Humphrey Carpenter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Iâ€™d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because itâ€™s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off.
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

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