A Quote by David Droga

Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing.

David Droga

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David Droga
Australian - Businessman
Born: 1968

When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

Gary Jennings

I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.

Phil Klay

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

David Lindsay-Abaire

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Louise Bourgeois

Years ago, I worked at a fashion magazine. I was the lowest man on the totem pole, one of the only men on that particular pole: a little brother with a dozen older sisters whose grace and glamour I so admired.

Rumaan Alam

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

Bill Viola

I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my projections, of course). I feel sustained, excited, and constantly growing in my spiritual and intellectual pursuits.

Duane Elgin

I was a sharecropper's son. That's as low as you can get on the totem pole.

Hal Needham

Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He's a totem pole of transparency.

Greg Gutfeld

There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

Jules Romains

On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.

Charisma Carpenter

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

Beau Willimon

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

Andy Roddick

If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.