Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
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Sometimes you've got to keep your mouth shut.
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I enjoy romantic comedies in general. I like them when they're bad, I like when they're good.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.
