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

• It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin
  • Different
  • Hope
  • Wall

• Eventually, I started to actually enjoy rapping.

  

  Nora Lum

• I see certain girls get the roles that I auditioned for, and I think, 'Oh, that's so annoying. I should have gotten that role!' But then I have to stop myself and actually think, 'No, she got it for a reason. She worked hard for it, and she was right for the role.'

  

  Angourie Rice
  • She
  • Stop
  • Annoying

• Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

  

  Charles A. Beard
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Education

• An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

  

  Jane Smiley