Jane Smiley Quotes
'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.
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I'm a good driver.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
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Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.
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My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
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The men of England - the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
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Bangkok is one of those places where it's so rich and full of tradition, but they're so open to different people - different gender expressions and gender identities. As a gay man, I never once felt uncomfortable there. As a black man, I never once felt uncomfortable.
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I'm a great lover, I'll bet.
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The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.
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'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.
