Jan Brett Quotes
When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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It's never a done deal until it's a done deal.
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'The Fast' is tough; it's not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that's what also makes it fun.
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I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
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That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
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Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.
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When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
