Jami Attenberg Quotes
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
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My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.
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If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
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I am honored to receive the James Beard award and so incredibly proud of my entire team at Eleven Madison Park.
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Our students are the best investment we can make for our country and our future economic prosperity. It's in our best interest to ensure they're receiving the best education possible and maximizing their potential.
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My job was to entertain. I've always seen myself in the entertainment realm.
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I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
