Jami Attenberg Quotes
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
