Jane Smiley Quotes
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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You never know what the future brings.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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My work is about structure. It has never been a reaction to Abstract Expressionism. I saw the Abstract Expressionists for the first time in 1954. My line of influence has been the 'structure' of the things I liked: French Romanesque architecture, Byzantine, Egyptian and Oriental art, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Klee, Picasso, Beckman..
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The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
