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Thomas E. Mann Quotes

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 10, 1944

Topics

Culture Process Corruption Rules

Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

John C. Maxwell

Change Good People Action Process

The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it would be a mistake to presume that I'm not using fiction to extend the narrative.

Time Mistake Writing You Place Know

My films, no one else will do.

Will Else Films

I'm really into video games.

Video Games Games Video Really

When we were kids, we couldn't wait to have our own rooms, not to have to share anymore. And that is what I love about having my own bedroom. It is mine. My sleep is mine. Both pillows are mine. If I wake up, it is me who has woken me up... It makes me feel like a grown-up. I love it.

Love Sleep Me Wait Wake Up Feel

In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.

People Down Hollywood Rumors Get

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

Joseph Wambaugh

River People Stand Back Down Wall

I don't take much pride in fake fighting.

Pride Fake Fighting Take Much

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Style Structure Single Presence

The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

Change You Left Get Behind Them

If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense, and she knows what she likes.

Character I Am Duck Stubborn Say

Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.

Bruce Feirstein

Looking Bond You Shoulder Anything

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