Jane Smiley Quotes
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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I know nothing about technology.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
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After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my 'Criminal Minds' family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.
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New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.
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The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.
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Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'
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I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
