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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Every tub must stand upon its bottom.
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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
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I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.
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It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.
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When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
