Jami Attenberg Quotes

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

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• Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Together
  • Team
  • Confidence

• I got no hate in me.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Got

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • Great
  • Everyday

• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Why
  • Sound

• I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Long
  • Language
  • Voice

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
  • Lost

• America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • War
  • Tax

• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • People
  • Kind
  • Early

• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hearts
  • Big
  • July

• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Photography

• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Favorite

• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • World
  • Real
  • Special

• Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Reading
  • Animal
  • Almost

• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Society
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • World
  • Myself
  • Problems

• 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Up
  • Done
  • Movie

• I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today, I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my shows.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • School
  • Today
  • Girl

• It takes time for 700,000 people to get to know their congressman.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann
  • People
  • Time

• Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.

  

  Meshell Ndegeocello
  • People
  • Community
  • Media

• We enjoy playing small shows, big shows, whatever. There's the energy of the visual production, and all that stuff starts to happen, so when you see it come to life, it's pretty exciting.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Energy
  • Enjoy
  • Starts

• I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

  

  Jami Attenberg
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