Caridad Svich Quotes
Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because I respect that first go at the story. If I don't have the key in that first draft, I invariably won't get it in subsequent drafts, though I can craft around it.

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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
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When Clint Eastwood walks into a room, you may not know his name. But you know who he is.
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The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.
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I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'
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They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.
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But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
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Refineries are very energy-intensive.
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Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because I respect that first go at the story. If I don't have the key in that first draft, I invariably won't get it in subsequent drafts, though I can craft around it.