Ann Friedman Quotes
If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches and start taking a hard look at their stable of regular contributors. How many women are on the masthead? How many women columnists or bloggers are on the payroll? This is how real change is going to happen.Ann Friedman
Quotes to Explore
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
Olly Murs -
I have nothing to hide.
Adam Lambert -
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson -
I take my work seriously.
Daniel Craig -
A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
Maisie Williams
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher -
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
Larry Niven -
When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
Otis Blackwell -
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
Nadine Gordimer -
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
G. Gordon Liddy -
It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
Wendy Kopp
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
G. Willow Wilson -
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
Irvine Welsh -
Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
Victoria Wood -
No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
Vash Young
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I am surrounded by death, inside and out, and all it does is remind me of how futile everything is, everything ever was.
Beth Revis -
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
Lech Walesa -
'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'
Katori Hall -
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
Peter Thiel -
If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches and start taking a hard look at their stable of regular contributors. How many women are on the masthead? How many women columnists or bloggers are on the payroll? This is how real change is going to happen.
Ann Friedman