Hallie Ephron Quotes
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
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I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.
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But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
