"Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out."

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Source : Megan McArdle (2014). “The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success”, p.11, Penguin

Megan McArdle

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“Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.”
“Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.”
“If you create enough space in Egypt, civil society will revive itself, and then will you have all of these secular forces, liberals, nationalists and others, compete with the Islamists. And then you will see the Islamists reduced to their size.”

Source : "After Egypt's 'Cosmic' Day, Will Army Usher in Democratic, Civilian Government?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2011.
“There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.”
“You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.”
“If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.”
“I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'”
“When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.”

Source : "There Aren’t Enough Women Cinematographers and That Needs to Change" by Elle Schneider, www.indiewire.com. October 30, 2014.

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