"Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power."

-- Robert Greene

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“So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.”

Source : "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.”
“When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group
“I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.”
“I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.”
“Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.”
“For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.”
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”

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