Jerry Della Femina Quotes
I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
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Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
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As someone who loves being on the field with his teammates, it's hard to hear that you're not going to be the one playing.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.
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I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
