"Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it."

-- Leonard Michaels

#Attitude Quotes #Stories Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.”
“What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.”
“I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.”
“Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word .”

Source : Comment as Eliezer Yudkowsky @yudkowsky, www.facebook.com. June 10, 2012.
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

Source : "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.
“It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.”
“The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.”
“There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.”

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