"It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book."

-- Paul Thomas Anderson

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“Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.”
“Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.”
“When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.”
“This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.”
“Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes”
“The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us -- that there is merit in doing what is different -- and at the same time, by changing Nintendo in accordance with changing times”

Source : "Longtime Nintendo president dies" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2013.
“I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.”
“We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering through it, doing something we hate. There's no prize at the end for that kind of endurance. Just a spent life.”

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