Jami Attenberg Quotes
I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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I think that this television medium, or whatever we call it now, is a really great frontier to turn people onto music - to new music or old music. It's a great platform where you've got people's ears, and you can throw something at them. I like to use it to the fullest that I can.
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Oscar: In a society where dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, those viewpoints are potent and dangerous... Where dissent is tolerated, it rapidly becomes quaint and is viewed as un-sophisticated; people merely amuse themselves with the expression of contrary opinion. (p. 41)
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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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The corner of the 'food media' that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don't really have a point or don't have a lesson to be learned. If you don't have a point, or if there's not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone's life, in my old age, I'm just not into it.
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'Peaches!'
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I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?
