Jami Attenberg Quotes
I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been married over 50 years of my life.
-
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
-
You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
-
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
-
Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
-
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
-
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
-
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
-
We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
-
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
-
I believe in aging gracefully.
-
L.A. makes you feel ugly.
-
I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
-
When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
-
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
-
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
-
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
-
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
-
I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
-
I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
-
Manuka honey is magic.
-
You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.
-
I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.
