#tract

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#both sides #contract #determines #dollar #enjoyment

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#attracted #being #i #seeing #specific

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. ↗

— Theodor Svedberg

#been #changes #conditions #formed #foundation

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world. ↗

— Taliesin

#his #i #lord #over #praise

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#before #genre #grew #head #i

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#easier #hits #home #position #take

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#creativity #distracted #eventually #get #horny

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#ascetic #brain #distracted #fairly #get

I don't pitch for contracts. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#i #pitch