Jami Attenberg Quotes
Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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What's comforting about coming from a family of actors is I don't have to explain the struggle. I can just sigh to my sister, 'I had a bad one,' and she'll know exactly the profound audition humiliation I am describing.
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I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.
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Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.
