Jami Attenberg Quotes
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
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Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
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Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
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People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
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The American public, especially the people of the Gulf Coast region, deserve to know what happened in the early days of the storm. At every level of government - local, state and federal - the initial response was simply unacceptable, ... push for answers.
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I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.
