Judith Rossner Quotes
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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We all have to make choices in life.
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.
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When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because there isn't a lot of rehearsal time, especially at the ballet, it's best if everything is written in the score.
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I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I'd worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.
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The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.
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Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It's certainly interesting to consider that one of the richest sources of saturated fat in nature is human breast milk.
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I've never been no superficial cat.
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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
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So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.
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I just have to work on the apologetic side because I'm Canadian. We apologize for everything.
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Sometimes it's good to remember who you are outside of work.
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If you pinpointed someone before the kick-off, probably you would become embroiled in a fight, and you would be distracted from what really matters and not play well.
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The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
