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Lawrence Wright Quotes

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

Lawrence Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1947

Topics

Beginning World You Down Go Your

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Leader Best People Team Grow Know

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Nature Best Communism Human Nature

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

Future Past You Back Go Sometimes

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Anatole Broyard

Bad Teeth Stick Novels Reader

It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

Knowledge Listening Tough Thought

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

Love Magic Television Movies Kid

I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles.

Fun People Small Want Group Against

I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

Amanda Righetti

Work Change Great Time Job Yourself

Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful work.

Work Beautiful Sometimes Experiences

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

Time Traveled Paris Over Europe

The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.

Music Why Reason Millennials Give

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

Greatness America Wonder Sometimes

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