"I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time."

-- Robert M. Gates

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“It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.”
“My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.”

Source : "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.
“Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.”
“If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.”
“I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.67, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the 90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.”
“I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.”

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