Jerry Della Femina Quotes
Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970, and we have never observed modern finance-capitalist systems operating over a sustained period at this kind of credit-to-GDP leverage ratio.
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Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.
