Jami Attenberg Quotes
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
Malorie Blackman
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
Lakshmi Pratury
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
Daniel Curtis Lee
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
Caprice Bourret
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
Taiye Selasi
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
Carli Lloyd
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
Sam Walton
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
Gabrielle Reece
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
Magic Johnson
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
Laura Mvula
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
Gabourey Sidibe
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I am forever learning and changing.
W. Edwards Deming
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
AJ McLean
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We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.
Barry Sternlicht
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Beauty is a whore.
Walker Percy
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It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.
Kevin Rollins
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Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.
Yvette Mimieux
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
Elbert Hubbard
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Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
T. C. Boyle
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I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.
Eli Broad
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I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
Jami Attenberg