"There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances."

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Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

Amy Waldman

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“I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments-including atomic armaments-and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal suicide.”
“Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.”
“The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.”
“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”
“Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.”
“At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.”
“Not that they were there to have funâ€”although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.”

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