Jerry Della Femina Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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There can be no darkness where I provide the light.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.
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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
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The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.
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Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town.
