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“The Fellowship heralded a new kind of film-making. Its script had four credited writers and about seven non-credited ones. Peter Jackson ran seven film units, nine music units and a production crew of 2,400.”
― The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas
― The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas
“We all learn, whether consciously or not, that the default interpretation of behavior reflects a character's state of mind, and every fictional story that we read reinforces our tendency to make that kind of interpretation first.”
― Theory of Mind and the Novel
― Theory of Mind and the Novel
“Britain’s fashion industry employs more people and makes more money than do its car or steel industries.”
― The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas
― The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas
“When we encourage people to believe that something matters, we attract the kind of people who care about that something. Soon buying from us becomes part of their identity—their story.”
― Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly
― Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly
“In September 2001, after an unnecessary international war with Ethiopia, half the Eritrean cabinet wrote to the president, Isaias Afwerki, asking him to think again about his autocratic style of government. He thought about it and imprisoned them all.”
― The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
― The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
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