Jerry Della Femina Quotes
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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From LeBron's standpoint, if a guy like Kyrie walks away - that creates doubt. But Kyrie committed right away, and that's a major statement about his faith in us.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
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In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.
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The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.
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My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.
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'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.
