Jerry Della Femina Quotes
I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.
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I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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I'm not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.
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I think it's good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words.
