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" You can't teach someone to be imaginative. "
Tony Gilroy
Someone
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You
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" Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. "
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" I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time. "
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" Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that. "
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" Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones. "
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" The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different. "
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