“Movies take years to bring to theater, but hours to watch. Strikingly similar to success.”

Reasons to cry during the movie &quot;Titanic&quot; http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=cry_titanic. <br class="br">The Best Page in the Universe

Amy Longsdorf (January 25, 2000) "Isnt' He Great? - Hollywood Sure Thinks So, But Nathan Lane Is Still More Comfortable Onstage Than On Celluloid", The Record, p. Y1.

Interview on National Public Radio (13 December 1974)
Context: I think politicians and movie actors and movie executives are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

Attributed to Plato in Confidence : How to Succeed at Being Yourself (1987) by Alan Loy McGinnis, this is probably a paraphrase of a statement which occurs in Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World (1907) by Richard Lindgard: &quot;Take heed of playing often or deep at Dice and Games of Chance, for that is more chargeable than the seven deadly sins; yet you may allow yourself a certain easie Sum to spend at Play, to gratifie Friends, and pass over the Winter Nights, and that will make you indifferent for the Event. If you would read a man’s Disposition, see him Game; you will then learn more of him in one hour, than in seven Years Conversation, and little Wagers will try him as soon as great Stakes, for then he is off his Guard.&quot; <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. <br class="br">Attributed to Plato in Food Is the Frosting-Company Is the Cake (2007) by Maggie Marshall <br class="br">You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. <br class="br">Attributed to Plato by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as quoted in &quot;Aspiring philosopher Palin quotes &#x27;Plato&#x27;&quot; (9 July 2009) http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/09/palin-plato/ <br class="br">Misattributed

Quoted in James Nicholas, A Book of Wisdom and Delight: How to Fall in Love With Life (2008) p. 162.

Oral history interview with Vincent Price https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-vincent-price-13227 (August 1992)

Exclusive Interview: Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine 3D) http://www.chud.com/17737/exclusive-interview-patrick-lussier-my-bloody-valentine-3d/ (January 12, 2009)

Source: The Commercial Power of Great Britain, 1925, p. xxxi ; Highlighted section cited in: Joel Mokyr. The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850. 2011. p. 237
Context: The successes obtained in the government of the arts, are similar to the successes obtained in the government of men. We may succeed for a time, by fraud, by surprise, by violence: we can succeed permanently only by means directly opposite. It is not alone the courage, the intelligence, the activity of the manufacturer and the merchant which maintain the superiority of the productions and the commerce of their country; it is far more their wisdom, their economy, above all their probity.

Culture http://books.google.com/books?id=uVYRAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;The+measure+of+a+master+is+his+success+in+bringing+all+men+round+to+his+opinion+twenty+years+later&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA157#v=onepage <br class="br">1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)