Noah Baumbach I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn’t know it was happening until it was over. – Noah Baumbach Change Quotes Happening Quotes Lot Quotes I don’t agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable. I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves – to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They’re testing boundaries, and I think that’s healthy.
Michael Ashcroft We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change – the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point. – Michael Ashcroft
Albert Bandura Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. – Albert Bandura
Bruce Nauman In art, the only one who really knows whether what you’ve done is honest is the artist. – Bruce Nauman
Maria Semple Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you’re thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That’s your main focus. – Maria Semple
Poo Bear I love R&B because it got me to where I am today, but at the same time, R&B just doesn’t sell. – Poo Bear
Steven Moffat My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare’s day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. – Steven Moffat
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