Jane Smiley Quotes
Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

Quotes to Explore
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
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Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!