Jami Attenberg Quotes
What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
Quotes to Explore
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
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I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.
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I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!
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My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.
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What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
