Jami Attenberg Quotes

I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

Jami Attenberg

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• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Little

• In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Help
  • Hope

• And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • May
  • Think

• 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Think
  • inspirational
  • Sky

• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Long
  • New

• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Never

• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Live
  • Surrounded
  • Rural

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Just

• Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Product
  • Apple

• I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Old

• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Health
  • Countries
  • Outcomes

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• A true champion will fight through anything.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • True
  • Fight
  • Champion

• They were happy years, the four I spent in Glasgow, for I was young and ardent, and had not yet suffered the grave miscarriage of hope which is our human lot.

  

  John Buchan
  • Happy
  • Hope
  • Miscarriage

• We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

  

  John Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Death

• Pollution, defilement, squalor are words that never would have been created had man lived conformably to Nature. Birds, insects, bears die as cleanly and are disposed of as beautifully as flies. The woods are full of dead and dying trees, yet needed for their beauty to complete the beauty of the living.... How beautiful is all Death!

  

  John Muir
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Death
  • Earth

• After the first proof of 'Sphere Spirals' my high expectations were, as always, greatly disappointed. I am now struggling on - with some feeling of despair - so that I at least achieve a passable result.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • High
  • Feeling

• I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Death