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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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 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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I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan; I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.
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Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.
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To be an icon... I guess that's a privilege.
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
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Music is something so mystical, so unexplainably a thing you cannot put in the rules or boundaries, you know? It speaks about our feelings about questions of life and death. It goes absolutely beyond any kind of rules.
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I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.
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But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.
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When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
