Dawn Olivieri Quotes
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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We approach closer and closer to socialism.
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I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.
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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
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I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.
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For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.
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I try to avoid large crowds.
