- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
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- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, children who live on a farm become sophisticated, too - but about more important things.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020