Janeane Garofalo Quotes
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.
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I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.
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There's nothing I can really do but keep going out there and swinging.
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What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
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It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.
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I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.
