Jerome Isaac Friedman Quotes
When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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People trash talk me.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.
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I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.
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If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about.
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No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
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When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
