Jane Smiley Quotes

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

Jane Smiley

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• I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • She
  • Business
  • Fun

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • You
  • Me
  • Either

• Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Country
  • Moment

• Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

  

  Val Guest
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Favourite

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Thought
  • Creation
  • Heritage

• I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Me
  • Smart

• I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • High
  • Want

• That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Rituparno Ghosh is a legendary director, and I happen to be a huge fan of his.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Happen
  • Director
  • Legendary

• The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Expensive
  • Too
  • Paperback

• The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. Freedom of the press, too.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • People
  • Freedom

• I'm tired of being in love and being all aloneWhen you're so far away from me.I'm tired of making out on the telephoneBecause you're so far away from me.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Tired

• I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. … Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life
  • Together
  • Light

• I rebel - therefore we exist.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Rebel

• Walk on.

  

  Bruce Lee

• I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

  

  Ashley Olsen
  • Cool

• In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend. That's something I learned moving forward into adulthood: to keep the people around me people who love me for exactly who I am.

  

  Katie Stevens
  • People
  • School
  • High

• We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

  

  Alberto Juantorena
  • Up
  • Distance

• Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• There are more similarities than differences when it comes to preparation of a performance. You're using some lyrics, you have a relationship with them, they apply to different parts of your life and different circumstances, different memories, different stories you have in your head. You form personal relationships with the song. I think that's very similar, in a way, to prepping a character. You pour your own personality, in a sense, into the character, you sympathize with a character in a way that's similar to the way you might sympathize with a song.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Character
  • Memories
  • Personality

• An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

  

  Jane Smiley