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 always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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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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No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.
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I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.
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We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.
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Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
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Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
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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.
