"Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had...."

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Source : James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage

James Gleick

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“I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.”
“Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.”
“The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all”
“Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.”
“Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which for me means the first hours after getting out of bed in the morning. I've been doing it enough years now that I don't even think about waiting for my muse to show up, I just get to work.”
“Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.”
“If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you... don't see anywhere else.”
“I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.”

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