Debi Gliori Quotes
I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I can always go back to education.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
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You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.
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In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!
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As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.
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I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
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I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.
