"I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments."

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Source : "‘The Man in the High Castle’ producer Frank Spotnitz on his Amazon pilot". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 2, 2015.

Frank Spotnitz

#Assessment Quotes #Skins Quotes #Remember Quotes

“If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.”
“By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.”

Source : Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons
“I like the noise of democracy.”
“It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. Iâ€™m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense to me to be as whole and well as I could be, and as happy. I wanted to see what a fortunate life would produce. What writing would come out of a mind that didnâ€™t try to torment itself? What did I have to know? What did I have to do rather than what can I torment and bend myself into doing? What was the fruit on that tree?”
“Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".”
“Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.”
“Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.”
“Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.”

Source : "Secret red light blogger signs off" by Steven Morris, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2004.

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