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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My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.
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Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.
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For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.
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People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.
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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.
