"But I think the goal of all these attacks is the same, which is to seize maximum media attention. Maybe some of these attacks were meant to be small. Some of them might have been failed larger attacks. And some of them are just part of a new strategy of doing lots of tiny attacks, as opposed to one large one."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Karan Mahajan

#Thinking Quotes #Goal Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.”
“I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.”
“If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up with--(not that one man's experience is better than another's, but that it is 'his.')--may give him something better in his substance and manner than an over-long period of superimposed idiomatic education which quite likely doesn't fit his constitution. My father used to say, 'If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven'”
“If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.”

Source : "Let’s Keep Girls’ Education in the Global Spotlight" by Frida Giannini, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.
“I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else”
“Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.”

Source : "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.
“In politics, it's very theatrical. Thereâ€™s a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.”

Source : "‘Ides Of March’ Screenwriter Beau Willimon Talks Political Vs. Oscar Campaigns & Why George Clooney Deserved More Oscar Nods". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 25, 2012.
“Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?”

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