Frank Herbert It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. – Frank Herbert Contented Quotes Discontented Quotes Poor Quotes Rich Quotes Wise Quotes The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Stephen McCauley Early on, I got some criticism from other gay writers and queer theorists for being too ‘assimilationist,’ probably because my characters are outsiders, even in the gay world. – Stephen McCauley
Faye Marsay I’m from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad’s a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS. – Faye Marsay
Carlos Mencia I have been recording every single one of my shows since 1994. Every single joke I’ve ever done is on a hard drive. I can tell you when I wrote every joke I wrote. I can tell you the first time I said it, when I made it different, when I made it better. – Carlos Mencia
Nassim Nicholas Taleb In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn’t mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Jennifer Weiner Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer’s room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate. – Jennifer Weiner
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