Jeffrey Klarik Quotes
When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.
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It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
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When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.
