Jane Smiley Quotes
It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.
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People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.
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There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.
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It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.
