Fred Silverman Quotes
The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie 'Farrell for the People.' I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.Fred Silverman
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Patrick Kavanagh -
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
Madeline Kahn -
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore -
I got to write most of everything I said.
R. Lee Ermey -
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
Ira Sachs
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir -
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson -
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
Saint Ignatius -
If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
Adam Mansbach -
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
Edmund Phelps -
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
Irwin Shaw
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington -
All our wives are experimental psychologists.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
Walter Jon Williams -
This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
Kallam Anji Reddy -
Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
Garret Dillahunt -
It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
Pardis Sabeti
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
H. R. McMaster -
The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.
Elmore Leonard -
People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play.
Darell Hammond -
Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
Alvar Aalto -
I wear pink on Saturdays for breast cancer, and I wear blue on Sundays. I'm superstitious. At the Evian tournament in 2010, in which I came in second, I wore baby blue on a Sunday. And ever since then, I've worn it every Sunday. Puma sponsors me, so I wear all their outfits in bright colors. I wear matching hair ribbons, too.
Lexi Thompson -
The first sales meeting I made was for the television movie 'Farrell for the People.' I walked into a conference room at NBC that I had built. It was my memorial conference room. There were 10 people at the meeting, and by habit, I sat at the head of the table.
Fred Silverman