"And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim."

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Source : Interview With Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

Alfred Molina

#Reading Quotes #Successful Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.”
“When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.”
“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
“...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.”
“The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.”
“Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.”
“Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.”
“That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.”

Source : "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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