Jami Attenberg Quotes
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.
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I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.
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When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
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It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
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It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.
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I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.
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Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.
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The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
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Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.
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I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.
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If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.
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Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.
