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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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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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'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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I just like to bring energy. I always try to create a moment. Memories are important to me, and I like my look to go with the mood or the moment.
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I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.
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'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.
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The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand
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I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.
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I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.
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When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
