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.
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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.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I have nothing to hide.
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I take my work seriously.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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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.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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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.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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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.
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Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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There's no better feeling than being on a Broadway stage for me.
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We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.
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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.
