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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There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.
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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 feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.
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The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
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In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.
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You go year to year and you can only control what you can control.
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We're all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.
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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.
