Jan Schakowsky Quotes
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
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I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
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It's important to dress our children well. I have some wonderful memories from my childhood, and so much is associated with what I was wearing. If you look good, you feel good - simple.
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When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
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Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.
