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.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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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.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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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.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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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.
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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.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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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.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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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.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I don't think humanity is the highest form of life that will ever exist in the universe. Maybe that's a bit cynical. But most of the people I know are loving, kind, doing their best.
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I believe in people.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
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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.
