Betsy Lerner Quotes
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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Are you in my dream too?
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
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Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.
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Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money.
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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.
