Jami Attenberg Quotes
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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I'm really excited to be a part of the 'Fallen Heroes' EP.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.
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If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
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A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
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I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
