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The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Basic Blocked Core Idea Innovation Main Marketing Reasons Seems Unpredictable Why Wrong

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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Almost Battle Being Blocked Got Greatest Hazard His India Last Most Nine Novel Passage Periods Stuck Writers Writing Years

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David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me.

~David Lowery

Topics: Bad Blocked David Film Fire Me Memory Never Out Remember Repeatedly Scared Scares Scene Seen Three Times Two Walk I Can

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I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

~Dick Costolo

Topics: Across Ads Billboards Blocked Recently Shanghai Them Town Twitter Were Where

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If you miss something in the theater, you are working through it; you'll get it tomorrow. It's easy to forgive yourself in the theater. On television, you do one shot. All you've done rehearsal-wise is be blocked. There is all this pressure to get it right then.

~Donna Lynne Champlin

Topics: Blocked Done Easy Forgive Get Miss Pressure Right Shot Something Television Theater Then Through Tomorrow Working You Yourself

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VR should be more emotionally involving, but that doesn't happen automatically by just taking a VR camera and sticking it onto what would be a traditionally blocked scene for 2D.

~Doug Liman

Topics: Automatically Blocked Camera Emotionally Happen Involving Just More Onto Scene Should Sticking Taking Would Vr

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I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Because Been Blocked City Down Every Familiar Filming Forever Get Grumpy London Love Movie New New York Off Own Put Seen Shooting Street Streets Trying Up York You I Love

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When you lose your Visa card, you get a new card with a new number, and any new charges with the old number are blocked. Why can't we do the same with Social Security numbers?

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Any Blocked Card Charges Get Lose New Number Numbers Old Same Security Social Social Security Visa Why You Your

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Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Achievements Amendment Blocked Come Committee Compromises Congress Gone Hidden Individual Meetings Members Over Private Pushed Reports Thousands Through Unnoticed Years

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Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

~George Herbert Mead

Topics: Ancestors Before Blocked Cautious Delicacy Entrance Evil Exposure Find Gesture Hands Indecent Manner Mouths Our Putting Reason Spirits Way Which

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