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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I love Britain. I'm an Irish citizen, but I was born in Canada, and I'm a British comedian, really. My entire career has been over here.
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There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker.
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It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.
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The moment I appeared the crowd started jeering and booing and shouting ‘faggot’ and spitting, I had hired a bodyguard and when the jeering started I turned to see where the bodyguard was, I could just see the back of his head as he was running out of the stadium.
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We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.
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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.
