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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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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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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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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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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I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to my neighborhood and my block to my friends, and it would be a whole other story.
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I've followed freedom for a long time and I finally feel I've got more of it. People talk about the money that I've given up and the money that I've lost. But the knowledge and the wisdom that I've gotten from this experience is priceless.
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Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.
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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.
