"My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Zosia Mamet

#Dad Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Winning Quotes

“We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.”

Source : "Bobby Kotick Wants to Take the Fun Out of Making Games" by Andy Chalk, www.escapistmagazine.com. September 15, 2009.
“It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.”
“It's very hard to admit that the choice of 3D technology can play an important role for the director while he's thinking about the movie. But it does play a big role.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.”

Source : "Josh Fox: Activist and filmmaker" by Gerri Miller, www.mnn.com. May 2, 2012.
“The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.”
“I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.”
“When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever”

Source : Tobias Wolff (1989). “This boy's life”
“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.”

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