Shirley Hufstedler Quotes
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.
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I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work.
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Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
