Barry Diller Quotes
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
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Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.
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I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.
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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
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One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
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Whatever your mind feeds upon your mind attracts to you.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
