"The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles."

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Source : 'The Acquisitive Society' (1921)

R. H. Tawney

#Quality Quotes #Tests Quotes #Vices Quotes

“We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.”
“Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say.”
“Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.”
“We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library
“If you want to have the right to have that conversation with your agent - "I know you sent it to me, I know you like it, but I just really think it's terrible" - you need to have the full details about script. You don't want to be in that situation where your agent says, "What about after the first 20 pages where it turns into a psychedelic musical?" And you're like "What? I thought it was an action-rom!"”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Liberty comes only after security.”
“In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.”

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