Vivienne Ming Quotes

Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.

Vivienne Ming

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ValueBeing DifferentOpportunities

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.

Jim Butcher

BeginningPeopleStoryThinkEnd

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

John Banville

EyesDisappointmentMeArtistI Can

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

LoveThinkKingsFantasyTurnOut

I've always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes.

Trixie Mattel

MusicArmyDoingSaidPayJokes

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Tom Hodgkinson

PoetrySupportWorldEmbraceUseless

When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'

Michel Faber

PlaceResponsibleAskAnythingUs

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Mo Ibrahim

CorruptPoliticianBehindEvery

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

Jay Weatherill

ConfidenceFuturePastStartThink

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Jasmine Guy

FamilyFriendshipLoveCommunity

I'm the type of employer who will hire based on personality, based on potential. If you put the resume before the personality, you're going to fail.

Jon Taffer

PersonalityPotentialYouResumeWho

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.

Johnny Flynn

PeopleMindThinkWantKindWhy

I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.

David Shields

RelationshipAngerThinkGeniusWay

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