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"Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public."
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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies."

"American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets."

"The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values."

"The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment."

"If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly."

"Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term."
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