Jane Smiley Quotes
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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I'm not a violent person.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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If the guy does not treat you with love and respect, does not cease-and-desist with all the game playing, is not willing to share his world with you, then he is bad for you.
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If I wanted to doubt then I could doubt endlessly. But at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
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Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish.
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Respect and fear are two different things.
