(via Oliver Wright )
- Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Excuse me, excuse me. I don't mean to harass you, but I was very impressed with the capable and stylish manner in which you dealt with that situation. And I was thinking to myself, now this girl's special.
- Diane: Thanks.
- Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: What's your name?
- Diane: Diane.
- Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: And where are you going, Diane?
- Diane: I'm going home.
- Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Well, where's that?
- Diane: It's where I live.
- Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Great.
- Diane: What?
- Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Well, I'll come back with you if you like, but like, I'm not promising anything, you know.
- Diane: Do you find that this approach usually works? Or let me guess, you've never tried it before. In fact, you don't normally approach girls - am I right? The truth is that you're a quiet sensitive type but, if I'm prepared to take a chance, I might just get to know the inner you: witty, adventurous, passionate, loving, loyal. Taxi! A little bit crazy, a little bit bad. But hey - don't us girls just love that?
- Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Eh?
- Diane: Well, what's wrong boy - cat got your tongue?
(Source: screwshaftburn.com)
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I tested different story lines and tossed the bad ones and it’s quite something what a stranger in Iowa will buy from another in California over the phone. I laced my stories with dangerous words that leavened investing with high adventure. My clients didn’t invest in the future, they bankrolled it; they didn’t build wealth, they juiced their portfolios; they didn’t own shares of stock, they had skin in the game. I spoke of my sources on the inside and how I’d already said too much.
Every spirited investor wants to play robber baron or corporate raider, and if he can’t, then his badass banker sure can—villainy by proxy. Riches and emancipation from his subordinate life—what greater enticement could I extend? The slave to his stuff and wife mounted up for the Great Escape. And what better route than a hush-hush investment in the Next Big Thing?
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