Jane Smiley Quotes
Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
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I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.
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God is bigger than people think.
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I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
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Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
