Margo Georgiadis Quotes
As you become more senior in your career, it can be thin at the top - It's harder and harder to get unbiased and direct feedback when making decisions. You want people who will speak truth to power. Say no to any 'yes men or women' on your personal board. When you face a personal crossroads, you need honest advisors.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.
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The first day of 'The Town' was one of the most satisfying days of my career.
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Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.
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People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.
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As you become more senior in your career, it can be thin at the top - It's harder and harder to get unbiased and direct feedback when making decisions. You want people who will speak truth to power. Say no to any 'yes men or women' on your personal board. When you face a personal crossroads, you need honest advisors.
