Jill Davis Quotes
I don't actually keep the dresses I've worn during other friends' weddings. Closets are small in New York City - I can't be squandering space on bridesmaid dresses.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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You can go to Pinterest, and they'll get to know who your friends are, but they don't get to know very much about what you've done in the past. They're starting with little information about you, and they have to do this personalization.
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I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.
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You may have seen my firm's ads screaming, 'I Hate Annuities.' Folks ask why we run them. Simple: Because I do.
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Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
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I don't actually keep the dresses I've worn during other friends' weddings. Closets are small in New York City - I can't be squandering space on bridesmaid dresses.
