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 can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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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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I was about three years old when I started playing in Venezuela with my two older brothers. They're 12 and 11 years older, so I was always the little one.
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What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.
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I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.
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I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.
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With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.
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In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.
