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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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Melancholic and lovable is the trick, right? You've got to be able to show that you have these feelings. In the game of life, you get these feelings and how you deal with those feelings. What you do when you are trying to deal with a melancholy. A melancholy can be sweet. It's not a mean thing, but it's something that happens in life - like autumn.
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I'm a really huge fan of papaya juice.
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There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.
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Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.
