Fred Wilson Quotes
Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.
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There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.
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Music is not my business, communication is; and so I have, through my life, tried to communicate through music.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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I really fight for my privacy.
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Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
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Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.
