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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Couple

• 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.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • System
  • Cooperation

• I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Director

• To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Politics is a people business. I like people.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Business
  • Politics

• Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Together
  • Learn
  • Democrats

• Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Choose

• 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.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Will

• I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Culture
  • First
  • Deal

• History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • History
  • New
  • Tech

• When Clint Eastwood walks into a room, you may not know his name. But you know who he is.

  

  Mark Valley
  • May

• 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.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • Business
  • Purpose

• I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Bill Janklow
  • American

• 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.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • Strong
  • Opportunity
  • City

• The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Society
  • Reality
  • Categories

• I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • World

• The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.

  

  David Crystal
  • English

• When you use a simple gelatin like collagen, you can get flavor that is 100 percent pure, maybe event 150 percent.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Caridad Svich
  • Energy
  • Attention
  • Focus