"The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him."

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Source : "Arborophilia". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2005.

Jacob M. Appel

#Sleep Quotes #Boss Quotes

“I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.”

Source : Interview With Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2010.
“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
“Inspiration can come from anywhere - an image, a comment, something that's happened to me or someone I know. It's hard to know exactly.”
“If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.”
“Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?”
“The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidityâ€”and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.”
“Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.”
“I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.”

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