"I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out."

-- Helen Fielding

#Writing Quotes #Finance Quotes #Bridget Jones Quotes

“Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.”
“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”

Source : Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.”

Source : Source: gawker.com
“The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I got back home and began to follow the war on TV and in the press I began to see this enormous con game - I can't think of any other word for it - that government and the military was foisting on the American people, especially on the young men of my generation, and even worse, the young men of my generation who weren't particularly economically or intellectually privileged.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you”
“Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.”
“So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.”

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