Jane Gardam Quotes
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
-
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
-
There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
-
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
-
I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
-
I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
-
I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
-
You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
-
There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
-
I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
-
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
-
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
-
I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
-
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
-
Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
-
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
-
What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?
-
Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.
-
There's nothing normal about graduating with massive student debt, where you live in fear of predatory debt collectors and wage garnishers even as you are starting to live your life.
-
The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.
-
Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time
-
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
