Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Quotes
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I got a big mouth.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.
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As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Film is much more of a brand business, whereas on Broadway, you can do complete unknowns and have hits.
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The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.
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In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.
