"I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it."

-- Robert Barry

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“Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.”
“I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.”
“The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition”

Source : W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne (2015). “Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press
“I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.”
“To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.”
“When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.”
“But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.”
“A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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