Jane Smiley Quotes
We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.
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'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
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The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!
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It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.
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Artistic form of the future is prose with cadence for lyrical expression.
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We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.
