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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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Harry Dresden: Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold-Athena heading out on a Friday night.
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We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
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The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
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It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.
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Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.
