Jane Siberry Quotes
Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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I'll be starting two new production houses - Konidela Productions and White Horse Entertainments.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
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I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, 'Okay, I can deal with this person's personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I'm not gonna change myself to be their friend.'
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I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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Gale and Shapley assumed that each person has a given ranking among potential mates that determines rather than is determined by the equilibrium sorting.
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In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. … In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.
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Where's he that died o' yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink the can and toss the pot When this night's junkets be? For the lad that died o' yesterday Is just as dead - ho! ho! - As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago.
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Even the White House has a press agent.
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The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.
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Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.
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I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!
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I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
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What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.
