Jerry Della Femina Quotes
In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I want to win football games.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
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My government career is over.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.
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In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.
