Pico Iyer Quotes
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
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I have a boxing trainer at a gym, which is really fun. And I also try to complement it with flybarre, which is lengthening, strengthening, toning, just tightening everything up.
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I had a double bacon cheeseburger at Chili's, and I lost a tooth in it. My tooth!
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When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
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I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.
