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Robert C. Merton Quotes

School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Robert C. Merton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 31, 1944

Topics

Work Music Passion Mathematics Fun

I love to cook. I'd have a dinner party, and someone would be like, 'Can you do this at my house?' So my catering partner and I - we were both struggling actresses at the time - thought, instead of getting a waitressing job, let's do what we love. We always said if things pick up, our acting careers come first.

Love Time Job Dinner Thought Acting

Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.

Me Ahead Schedule Write Over Big

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Success Failure Flavor Gives

I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.

Feel Source Industry I Feel Like Too

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

Speak Call Who Cause Those Often

It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.

Janette Rallison

Time Fun Reading Story Feel Enough

I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.

Family Help I Can Never Over Chores

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

Community Trust Together Past People

You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.

Cornelia Parker

Work You Artist Emotions Want Whole

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.

Colin Trevorrow

Name Better You Movies Without Like

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

Music More Abstract Like Fact

I had a lot of funky things as a kid. I had dinosaurs and comic book stuff. I was eccentric; imagination drove my decor. Dinosaurs, for sure, were in there!

Imagination Book Kid Dinosaurs Sure

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