"Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism â€“ Lessons Iâ€™ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey"

-- Ruth Kelly

#Journey Quotes #Optimism Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.”
“The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.”
“I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.”
“We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.”
“Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.”
“If its December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?”
“But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.”
“Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts.Â I remember the first time he saw me in a boudoir, in a negligee, he said in that wondrous voice of his, â€˜Magnificent Carcass.â€™Â â€˜MAGNIFICENT CARCASS?â€™ I thought to myself. Whatever, I didn't see that one coming. But that's really all I want to say about Orson. I don't want to go into how he gave me the Clap.”

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