"All of which is mostly bullshit. The reality is that it's just like any other Ponzi scheme: the guys at the top are doing pretty well, but the guys on the bottom are doing Amway pitches in trailer parks."

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Tod Goldberg

#Reality Quotes #Bullshit Quotes #Guy Quotes

“Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.”
“I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.”
“I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B) enlarging my understanding of the central characters has to be sacrificed. I have huge folders of details - research - with a story like Netherlands. Only a very small part of it gets used. The old iceberg analogy again.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The world is anxiously waiting to see what Jesus Christ can do in, by, for, and through one man wholly given to him - God-led. You can be that man.”
“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Edgar Smith (2015). “The Scarlet Letter & A Scarlet Stigma: Romance and The Adapted Play (Illustrated Edition): A Romantic Tale of Sin and Redemption - The Magnum Opus of the Renowned American Author of “The House of the Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales” along with its Dramatic Adaptation and Biography”, p.164, e-artnow
“One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.”

Source : Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2002). “The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel”, p.395, Hachette UK
“We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.”

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