"Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other."

-- Ann Beattie

#Thinking Quotes #Tea Quotes #Hollywood Quotes

“The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory genius of the Greeks; no primitive peoples have ever come to study us. This is, on the one hand, a disinterested, intellectually inspired impulse. It is one of our glories. But it is, on the other, part and parcel of exploitation. [] The Western obsession with inquiry, with analysis, with the classification of all living forms, is itself a mode of subjugation, of psychological and technical mastery.”
“Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.”
“Whenever you don't have a good game, whether you're a starter, reliever, whatever, you definitely want to get out there again as soon as you can.”
“Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.”
“QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.”

Source : Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.
“The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!”
“The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.”
“Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.”

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