A Quote by Babyface

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Babyface

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Diamond Diamond In The Rough Executives Hear Like Lot Producers Rough Unfortunately

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Babyface
American - Musician
Born: April 10, 1959

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

Babyface

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

Orison S. Marden

I'd like to be a scout, go watch the games, and try and find a diamond in the rough.

Ashley Cole

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Daniel Defoe

I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.

Chad Gilbert

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Mary McLeod Bethune

In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I'm interested in writing action films, but I think there's still a very specific set of writers they look at. And I don't think there's a lot of female writers on that list.

Allison Schroeder

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Mary Harris Jones

One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

Nicky Oppenheimer

Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

Donald E. Westlake

It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.

Patrick Rothfuss

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'