"In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details."

-- Jane Jacobs

#Devil Quotes #Details Quotes #Outcomes Quotes

“To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.”
“Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.”
“We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.”
“I'm actively looking at pilots in the very limited pilot season that is about to begin. Lots of work for my clothing line which is extremely exciting.”
“But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so people can think what they think about it, but I'm very happy with what we did. I'm really proud of whatever all the actors what we all kind of accomplished and so regardless of how well it does or whatever I'm very excited about it and I think we set out to do the thing and accomplished what we wanted to do. Our goal was met, so yeah.”
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.”
“I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.”
“The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.”

Source : Francesca Lia Block (2012). “Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat”, p.8, Harper Collins

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