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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Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
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One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.
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There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
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I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
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My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
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Respect and fear are two different things.
