"Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind."

-- Shane Black

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Scripts Quotes

“You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.”
“Therefore, as always, make of this voice what you choose to make of it. Make of me what you choose to make of me, but recognize within yourselves the vitality of your being. And look to no man or no idea or no woman or no dogma, but the vitality of your own being, and trust it. And that which offends your soul, turn away from, but trust yourself.”
“Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.”
“And don't kid yourself; when you don't decide, that's a decision.”
“We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.”
“What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.”
“You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.”
“If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.”

Source : "Meet Michael Corbat, The Former NFL Prospect Who Just Became The CEO Of Citi" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. October 16, 2012.

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