"You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help."

-- Susan Hayward

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“The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?”
“These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.”
“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made â€“ at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.”

Source : "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.
“I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.”
“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.”
“Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed”
“The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.”

Source : "Effective Leadership Communications: It's More Than Talk" by John Baldoni, hbr.org. April 1, 2002.
“There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.”

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