Andrew Solomon I’m endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I’m reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time. – Andrew Solomon Abstraction Quotes Attention Quotes Drift Quotes Endlessly Quotes Formulate Quotes Helping Quotes Hold Quotes Human Quotes Intrigued Quotes Lives Quotes Love Quotes Narratives Quotes Pure Quotes Reading Quotes Stories Quotes Story Quotes Time Quotes When you close down your borders, you’re helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only not very attractive, from a moral and social standpoint, but also it’s not very effective as a means of defending the country. Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination’s curious intricacies, to be what you were, what you are, what you will be, and what everyone else is or was or will be, too.
Jack McBrayer When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do ‘Talladega Nights,’ so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year. – Jack McBrayer
Nick Johnson When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you’re able to find a way to score runs. – Nick Johnson
Aaron Klug Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics. – Aaron Klug
Peggy Johnson A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don’t map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what’s called a ‘halo effect’ where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others. – Peggy Johnson
Alex Winter The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup – we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth. – Alex Winter
Andy WeirWork A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don’t wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up. – Andy Weir
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