Bonnie Hammer Quotes
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There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men: that it was for young men, and that it was for geeky young men. We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre.
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To put it bluntly, I feel relevant and valuable, and I am struggling to understand why, when women reach age 65, they encounter an invisible barrier of perception that says it's time to walk away. Shouldn't we have a choice in the matter? Shouldn't our experience and energy be worth more?
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We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.
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You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.
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We can sit back and be part of a hurting America, or we can channel our energy into something positive and do what we can to break the cycle of hate.
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It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.
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This is the person you think is your antagonist, who ends up being your greatest ally: the person who pushes, criticizes, and challenges you to meet a standard of excellence you might not otherwise achieve.
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The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.
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I can't tell you how many meetings I open up with, 'My voice is last.' I don't want anybody to hear my opinion before I hear everybody else's opinion.
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If I say something, I mean it. If I promise something, best as I can, I'm going to follow through. If I say I have your back, I genuinely mean it.
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As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.
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My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.
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Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.
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The biggest mistake to me is complacency.
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My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
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Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.
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My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.
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It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.
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I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.
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Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.
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Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.
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'Stargate SG-1' is one of Sci Fi's sure-fire hits. It's got one of the best ensemble casts on television and one of the best production teams as well.
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Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into sci-fi than anyone expects.
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I've been trained and lived my entire life on the smallscreen.