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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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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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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I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
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I think the US is in a terrible state of denial … Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Götterdämmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.
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Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.
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What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.
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To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
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I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
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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.
