William Rosenberg Quotes
My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I want to play interesting women.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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Small business is America's engine of job creation.
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As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.
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I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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I don't like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead of being free, as I do on stage, to do my work.
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Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
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Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.
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Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
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My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.
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My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.
