"When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons."

-- James Frey

#Reason Quotes #Mercenary Quotes

“Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.”
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”
“The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.”
“Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things”
“The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all.”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
“As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.”
“I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say.”
“A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.”

Source : "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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