Jami Attenberg Quotes
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
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I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.
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The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
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Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
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It mocks me as it flies, I know: All too soon the gleam will go; Yet I love it and shall love My dream that brooks no narrower bars Than bind the darkening heavens above, My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars: Then, I'll follow it no more, I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.
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A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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I was always searching for something bigger, faster and better, and Slayer came up with that.
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I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.
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Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
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For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.
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I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.
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Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.
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We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you hear nowadays.
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When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
