“A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.” WantSaidDifferentStatesLawDealsSupportGroupsIndustry Author:William Jackson
“When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.” FirstsSaidArtistOrderDealsRecordsIndustryLabelsThey SaidMusic IndustryRecord Labels Author:Missy Elliot
“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.” ThinkingShouldBookUseTurnsDealsCuttingTreeIndustryAmountPaperImpactDistanceMarketingEnormousTraditionalElectricityEcologicalRetail Author:William Gibson
“In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.” GivingYearsYoungArtistGirlAsksRealizingDealsIndustryMajorsDecidedArticlesPromotionExclusiveMusic IndustryHope For The Future Author:Taylor Swift
“I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.” PeopleHardJobsDealsIndustryHardestYellingMcdonaldsFast FoodFood IndustryHardest JobService Industry Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.” PeopleWellsHardSchoolFilmDealsFiguresIndustryConstantPreparedHandleParanoidHard ThingsFilm IndustryVigilance Author:Megan Fox
“It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.” PeopleWorldWantSaidRealHardSchoolJobsLife IsOpportunityNamesDealsSuccessfulRecordsCuttingCollegeIndustryAdvantageTablesChecksLabelsBeing SuccessfulReal WorldMusic IndustryLife Is HardColumbiaTrue YouRecord Labels Author:Kanye West
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.” ThinkingMeanStoriesCommunityDealsPracticeTheoryIndustryNewsIdealsManagementExcuseCoreFamiliarLazyAgreementFairnessPietyPreoccupationBenignPassivityAutopilotLazy Thinking Author:Joan Didion
“I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.” MenMayDoeIndividualWishDealsIndustryGeniusComfortHorseAbsolutesIntelligentPatientConvincedObservationCertaintySteadyDespiseAbsolute Certainty Author:Walter Lippmann
“Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'” WorldAbleActorsDealsGrowing UpGrowingLandIndustry Author:Lake Bell
“The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.” SpiritDealsGroupsIndustryEasierAccomplishGenerosityInstillMovie IndustryGenerosity Of Spirit Author:John Travolta