Barry Diller Quotes
If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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You either are or you're not.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
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If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
