Jerry Della Femina Quotes
Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
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Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
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Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
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I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.
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With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.
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If something makes me happy, I go with it. It's as simple as that.
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When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.
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Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.
