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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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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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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Russia is a perfect partner in this direction.
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When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
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I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.
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If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
