"The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older."
"I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology."
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Source: Humphrey Bancroft Neill (1963). “The Art of Contrary Thinking”, p.9, Caxton Press
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