{"author":"Jerry Delia Femina","author_id":"Jerry+Delia+Femina","total_quotes":5,"quotes":[{"text":"I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah  if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter  and then one day somebody gives you a job  you can say  'Gee  I was lucky I happened to go up there today.' But dammit  I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working  you almost make your own fortune.","author":"Jerry Delia Femina","tags":["luck"],"id":5025,"author_id":"Jerry+Delia+Femina"},{"text":"I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah  if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter  and then one day somebody gives you a job  you can say  'Gee  I was lucky I happened to go up there today.' But dammit  I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working  you almost make your own fortune.","author":"Jerry Delia Femina","tags":["success"],"id":212359,"author_id":"Jerry+Delia+Femina"},{"text":"I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah  if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter  and then one day somebody gives you a job  you can say  'Gee  I was lucky I happened to go up there today.' But dammit  I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working  you almost make your own fortune.","author":"Jerry Delia Femina","tags":["pressure","diamonds"],"id":235193,"author_id":"Jerry+Delia+Femina"},{"text":"Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.","author":"Jerry Delia Femina","tags":["advertising"],"id":280228,"author_id":"Jerry+Delia+Femina"},{"text":"Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself  hey  I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute  then it would be a disaster  but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.","author":"Jerry Delia Femina","tags":["failures","mistakes"],"id":456270,"author_id":"Jerry+Delia+Femina"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}