Ann Friedman Quotes
I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt. We look for stories that are solutions-oriented, but not irrationally upbeat, from writers with a strong voice. For LadyJournos, where I'm curating not editing.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I was an expert horseman.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.
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Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.
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You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.
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When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.
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I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt. We look for stories that are solutions-oriented, but not irrationally upbeat, from writers with a strong voice. For LadyJournos, where I'm curating not editing.
