"The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money - and there is a shabby and pathetic powerlessness that comes with that need. The inability to risk new lives, new work, new styles of thought and experience, is more often than not tied to the bourgeois fear of reducing one's material standard of living. That is, indeed, to be owned by possessions, to be governed by a sense of property rather than by a sense of self."

-- Vivian Gornick

#Money Quotes #Self Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If you were enough like God, some one wouldn't like you.”
“Sex is good for about two years, and then you need love.”
“Best practices usually aren't.”

Source : Christopher Locke (2001). “Gonzo Marketing: Winning through Worst Practices”, Capstone
“I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.”
“Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them.”
“I followed the woman from the convenience store, to a driveway she pulled into. And I hung around several hours, till it come wee hours of the morning. Then I went into this house.. .I go to the first bedroom I see...I don't know whose room it is and, and, and, and I start stabbing.”
“A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 2, 2003.

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