Jami Attenberg Quotes
You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.
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Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.
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Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
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You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'
