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 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're famous, you're not free.
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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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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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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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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
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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.
