- Nov 07, 2020
Person Quotes
On character, focus and what makes a person who they are.
These quotes describe personal identity in different lights: spirituality that exists outside organized religion, competitiveness aimed inward rather than at others, and the wide or narrow focus people bring to their goals. For more, see our I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a perfectly well-adjusted normal person of any age from anywhere in the country and stick them in L.A., within about a week I do believe that a lot of their values and morals will start to degrade.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really on the implementation or execution side - I'm not on the battlefield. I'm an operations person who's overseeing multiple units that are out on the ground doing the job.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want be young and have fun, that's great. But while you're having fun, someone you don't see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media attention - the negative, in particular - it makes you a different person.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!'
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first challenge that every writer or creator of material faces is getting through the crowd so that the person you're trying to sell it to hears the pitch and is able to respond to it.
- Right Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a woman and a person of color; I know what it's like out there in the workplace.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the advantage of many perspectives as someone who has lived in different kinds of communities: as a woman, as someone who previously identified as a lesbian, as someone who is a person of color. I've had a lot of life, so that informs what I do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies are not lead by a single person; they're lead by a group of individuals collectively making good decisions on behalf of the company.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020