Janet Fitch Quotes

I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.

Janet Fitch

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• I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Want
  • Movies

• I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Community

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Story
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

  

  Jack Adams
  • End
  • Chicago
  • December

• I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Never
  • Down

• Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Work
  • Done
  • Learned

• Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Anything
  • Trade
  • Homeland

• My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Know
  • Focus
  • Fame

• As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Country
  • Inspired
  • Queen

• Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Early

• Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Imagination
  • Scary
  • Own

• You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • You
  • Circumstances

• In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Understanding

• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Law
  • Doubt
  • Yourself

• I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

  

  Amaury Nolasco
  • Believe
  • May

• The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Together
  • Free
  • Form

• Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Country
  • Art
  • House

• Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Smile

• I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.

  

  Janet Fitch