It’s definitely good to have a hit from time to time, though not too often. If you have a few hits in a row, people start to think every film you make will be a hit, which is a big mistake. Hirokazu Kore-eda Read Quote
When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you’re not being taxed, then you’re not being represented. Andrew Nikiforuk Read Quote
I was very insecure. I figured the only thing I can do is just work harder than everybody else and be useful. So I would anticipate when a client would need a cup of tea. I would anticipate when they wanted to rewind the tape. I would anticipate when they were going to do a vocal. Jimmy Iovine Read Quote
I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it. Lawrence Timmons Read Quote
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter. Jacob Ruppert Read Quote
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind. W. Somerset Maugham Read Quote
I don’t think I could have tackled ‘The Pura Principle’ until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it. Junot Diaz Read Quote
