Jerry Della Femina Quotes
Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
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Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.
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Love. Such a lot of damn fuss.
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It is a political axiom that power follows property.
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Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.
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I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
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80: Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
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I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never laid down, though it was past midnight; but they were calmer, and did not need me to console them. The little souls were comforting each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on: no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk; and, while I sobbed, and listened. I could not help wishing we were all there safe together.
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Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
