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“I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.”
Source : "W.O.W. : Writers on Writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.
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“There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.”
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“It's harder to read code than to write it.”
Source : Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.184, Apress
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“I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career -- every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.”
Source : Jen Lancaster (2012). “Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner”, p.129, Penguin
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“One writes in order to feel ...”
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“This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.”
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“Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so exempt from the natural domain that they can simply produce self-change instantaneously, on demand. Wisdom precipitates through a notoriously slow apparatus of retorts and flasks, and it has to find receptive ground only in a properly seasoned mind.”
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“I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.”
Source : "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.