Esther M. Friesner Quotes
Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
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An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
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We've beaten the Germans twice and now they're back!
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I can't approach a character with judgment.
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It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues.
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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
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I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
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All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.
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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.
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Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
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Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed.
