Elizabeth Diller Quotes
In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.
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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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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
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A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.
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I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean, we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.
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In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.
