"Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world still need uninterrupted time to attend to their lives and should not be outwitted if they have made it obvious that they are not always available upon summons."

-- Judith Martin

#People Quotes #Needs Quotes #Machines Quotes

“It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.”
“The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.”
“There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.”
“Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.”

Source : Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.”

Source : Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.123, Penguin
“Wherever you are, that's the entry point.”
“I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order to do that well, I think, one needs to point out the artifice of the narrative. Somehow if the narrator is self-aware then it's almost more humanizing and more relatable.”
“At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.”

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