Jami Attenberg Quotes

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• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mother
  • You
  • Know

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Experience

• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Pride
  • Goofy
  • Embarrass

• Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Reality
  • Running

• On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Day
  • Hurt

• I don't wear plaid shirts.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Wear
  • Shirts

• It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

  

  Barney Ross
  • People
  • Me
  • Lucky

• You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Change

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Help

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Everything
  • U.S.
  • Custom

• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Party
  • Liberal
  • Corporate

• I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • World
  • Free
  • Mad

• We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Talking

• It's a controversial segment, 'Watters World.' There's controversy around it.

  

  Jesse Watters
  • World

• I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • Movie
  • Romantic

• In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Party
  • Play
  • Author

• I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Taken

• One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Life
  • Children

• There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

  

  Jami Attenberg
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