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 love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
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I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.
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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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I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.
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I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
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In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
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Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.
