"It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house."

-- Thomas Malthus

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“The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Apr 08, 2013
“Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.”
“What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.”

Source : Referring to the Catholic Emancipation Act (1829), in H. Dunckley 'Lord Melbourne' (1890) ch. 9
“A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.”
“It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.”

Source : "Vice's New Envelope-Pushing Docu-Series Premieres on HBO Tonight" by Allison P.Davis, www.elle.com. April 5, 2013.
“Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.”
“We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (2011). “The Book of Men: Poems”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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