Jane Gardam Quotes
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.
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I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.
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To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
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Fans are awesome.
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Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein – you know, popcorn movie.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
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Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.
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Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.
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One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.
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The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families and businesses; increased transfer payments, like unemployment insurance; and increased direct government spending, like infrastructure investment.
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I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
