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Stephen Rodrick Quotes

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

Stephen Rodrick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

People Me Stranger Tell Magical Get

A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco.

Life People Sick My Life Going Get

I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it.

Melina Matsoukas

Work Hate More Half Most Than

My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.

Good Money Me Think Year Club

Monetary contractions are attractive as the key shocks in the 1929-1933 years, and in other severe depressions, because there do not seem to be any other candidates.

Robert Lucas, Jr.

Key Years Attractive Seem Because

In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.

Matthew Stewart

Business School Behavior Strategy

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

Michel Foucault

Nature Knowledge Conflict Chance

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

Challenge Hate People Opinion Think

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

Quality Reading Kind Up Lord Rings

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

Girl White Out Little I Was Raised

We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.

Best Trying Bring Hire Being Just

As I was finishing high school, 'Fresh Prince' was, by far, out front. The generation before me, it may have been the Huxtables, but for me and my homies, Fresh Prince.

School Me High School Generation Out

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

Ideas Brain Think Thinking You Back

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