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...Porter, Gibson really takes the suffering-for-your-art mantra to a new level, kind of like the Samaritan who lies down on the oil slick so you can walk on him to get over the puddle. With each new movie, he ups the ante, symbolically slathering more mustard on the dog so that it becomes more about how much torment he can take rather than about the movie itself. The evolution of this Method throughout his career shoves subtlety where it don't shine. Mad Max meets Martin Riggs meets Braveheart equals Porter, the con man with a heart...
...mantra that I was thinking a lot about when I was working on Glamorama. And it's just: Don't be an asshole. That's really what I tell myself a lot . I was just thinking--don't make a lot of bad choices and don't be an asshole...
...found myself feeling calm, happy and content living my alternative lifestyle. High-blood-pressure Harvard felt very far away. I had a new mantra that I repeated to myself on the beach and when I saw a giant rainbow and when we drove through the mountains: location, location, location...
...shelters and off the streets, regardless of their other problems. "No matter what is true about the homeless," says Mary Ann Gleason, executive director of the National Coalition of the Homeless, "they all have a lack of housing." That sounds like a return to the "housing, housing, housing" mantra that liberals sang in the '80s. Getting Americans to take the idea seriously again might require the return of liberalism itself...
Peter Lynch became a fabled money manager and best-selling author mainly on the back of a simple investing principle: Buy what you know. But how can the average investor square that strategy with the equally compelling mantra: Diversify for safety? It's one thing for a pro like Lynch to gain enough knowledge about enough stocks to own only those that he understands--and still be diversified. He's got the time and resources. Most individuals, though, are doomed to a far narrower scope. Their best edge may always reside in the company or industry where they work...