Jane Smiley Quotes
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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There is also present another source of energy operating in a more continuous fashion and being more intimately connected with the permanent evolution in human societies.
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I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.
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Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.