Jerry Della Femina Quotes

The Democrats are going the way of Burma Shave and Crisco - products everyone loved and had in their homes. But they got old. They didn't have anything new to say about the product, and after awhile, they died.

Jerry Della Femina

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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Jimmy Wales

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I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

Joel Salatin

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Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Ann Coulter

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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

John Steinbeck

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No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can ride.

Tony McCoy

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Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

Roisin Murphy

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Pregnancy is magical, I've never felt more connected to my body.

Mary Helen Bowers

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The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

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'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.

Lorraine Gary

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Style-wise, Valle Nevado is what can only be described as 'hip international.' Brazilians, Chileans and Europeans make the place seem like an electronic music festival transported to an remote Andean valley. Huge speakers blare out thumping, bass-heavy music, while promotoras stalk the staircases selling everything from Red Bull to mobile phones.

Jonathan Franklin

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It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

Johnny Depp

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When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.

Chuck Palahniuk

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