Jami Attenberg Quotes

I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.

Jami Attenberg

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• Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Live
  • Real
  • Risk

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Best
  • Purpose
  • Picture

• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Stress
  • U.S.
  • Reaction

• Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Live
  • Free

• Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Want
  • You
  • Working Hard

• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Impossible
  • Divorce
  • Islam

• Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Up
  • Together
  • True

• Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • May
  • You
  • Environment

• I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Great
  • Think
  • Therapy

• My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Father
  • Party

• I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Never

• Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Road

• I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Star

• Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Book
  • You
  • Feel

• But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Drama
  • Psychology
  • Modified

• Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Wisdom

• I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as a human being and as an artist, and whose life has been brightly lit and strengthened by her pursuit of truth.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• He would give up then, and console himself with something she’d said: that you could not love what you fully understood. Love, she maintained, was a process, not a state. Held still, it withered. He wasn’t too sure about all that; he seemed to have found a calm clear serenity in himself he hadn’t even known was there, thanks to her.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • She
  • Calm

• I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Children
  • Words
  • Amazing

• I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.

  

  Jami Attenberg