"Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!"

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Brit Marling

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.”
“Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.”
“You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”
“I was raised on Bruce Lee.”
“There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace. Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.”
“The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…”, p.44, e-artnow
“There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.”
“When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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