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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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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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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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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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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You start out with pick a few good simple things to get done, build trust, build that bipartisan feeling if you can.
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There were a few 6th form girls that I got with when I was I the 6th form, they were really nice, so that was cool.
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What I feel like - 'cause I wanna be married, of course - I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing.
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It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.
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Publicity doesn't work for books. It really doesn't. All it does is get your name in front of a reader who might then glance at your book. Or not.
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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.
