Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.
There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
