Jane Clayson Quotes
I know the rigors of network news. I didn't want to be jumping on an airplane twice a week. I didn't want to be tied to my pager and my cellphone.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
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It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.
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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
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In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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I tell myself that anyone who says he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Finished means complete, perfect, and I toil away without making any progress, searching, fumbling around, without achieving anything much.
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Shoot me in the chest.
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.
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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
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If you work in a home office, you can likely write off that space, as long as you use it only for work.
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Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.
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Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.
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I know the rigors of network news. I didn't want to be jumping on an airplane twice a week. I didn't want to be tied to my pager and my cellphone.
