Barry Diller Quotes
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.
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Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.
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Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
