fandom_muses: Topic 21 - Henry IV Quote

[idontreallyspar]

I’ll admit, I don’t read much Shakespeare? But I gotta agree with whoever said that right there. There’s a lotta people who surf through life, thinking this is all just a game...fat chance.

Putting up appearances, making a big deal out of the small stuff...it’s all so much bullshit. You gotta get your hands dirty if you want to get anywhere in this world. People who think they can skate by without paying a price for anything are either high or idiots.

You pay for what you want, and if you can get to the top without busting a few heads? You don’t deserve to be there. Now I’m not saying that you *have* to hurt people to get anywhere...physically, anyway, but in this day and age? Ambition and power are seriously frowned upon, if you get my meaning. You don’t take bullshit and you get called an asshole...you slug someone for talking shit? You’re a loose canon.

You have to be willing to make a mess if you want to survive, and if you are? Sometimes the mess is avoidable. But if it’s not...you do what you have to and you move forward.

locked to all personnel at APO

And if you have to hide things from the people you care about in order to do it? Well...like anything, sometimes it’s just a necessary evil.

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Muse: Thomas Grace
Fandom: ALIAS
Words: 226

Comments

[i-derevko.livejournal.com]

*laughs* How ever did someone like you make it in the CIA?

[idontspar.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I always turned my homework in on time when I went to school. Their background checks are *real* thorough.

[i-derevko.livejournal.com]

*another deeply amused laugh* Well, on behalf of all professors everywhere, I can say that timely homework is always appreciated, Mr. Grace.

[i-derevko.livejournal.com]

My comments above were intended as a compliment, Agent Grace. In my own experience, governments are too... dictatorial about policy. Now, that's fine for those agents they have that are too incompetant to be allowed free reign, but it always strikes me as a shame when competant, driven agents get punished for doing what they do best...