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.Jane Smiley
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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.
Hal Borland -
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.
Pamela Stephenson -
We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
Sam Riley -
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann -
I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
Cam Gigandet -
I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
Irvine Welsh
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
Zong Qinghou -
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.
Natalie Portman -
I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
Sam Cooke -
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown -
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.
Rajneesh -
'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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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.
Mae Jemison -
I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
Cameron Mackintosh -
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.
Gallagher -
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi -
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Sam Hunt
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I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.
Yayoi Kusama -
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
Anton Chekhov -
The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.
Hillary Clinton -
I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I was being trained to be the first women in the fast-breeder reactor in India (and was in it when it first went critical) - I didn't feel comfortable with it. So I went into theoretical physics.
Vandana Shiva -
You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.
Kenneth Cranham -
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.
Jane Smiley