Jami Attenberg Quotes
Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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I don't really eat a lot of fast food, ever, but if I had to eat at one fast food restaurant, it'd be In-N-Out.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.
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Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.
