Winnie Holzman Quotes

Series television is kind of intensive in terms of time. You fall hard for TV writing, but it's almost love-hate. You're under pressure all the time, but that pressure gets interesting things out of you that are, you know, mysterious.

Winnie Holzman

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• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
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• I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

  

  Carla Bruni
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• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

  Ralph Norman
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• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
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• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Reason
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• My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Important
  • Feeling
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• I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Always
  • Never
  • Down

• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
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  • Leading

• It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Reality
  • Rock

• I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • World
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• I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

  

  Eleanor Tomlinson
  • Trust

• At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
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• When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.

  

  Jenova Chen
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• I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • School
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  • Year

• True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

  

  George Dantzig
  • Decision
  • Research
  • Optimization

• For me, 'I Can't Make You Love Me' is one of the most brilliantly-written songs ever.

  

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• The panty-line thing shouldn't be a big deal. I think we should just all agree that panty lines are OK. Because the thong thing is... just uncomfortable.

  

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• I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Writing
  • Type
  • Pages

• Series television is kind of intensive in terms of time. You fall hard for TV writing, but it's almost love-hate. You're under pressure all the time, but that pressure gets interesting things out of you that are, you know, mysterious.

  

  Winnie Holzman
  • Writing
  • Pressure
  • TV