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
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
Nancy Meyers -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
Damian Lewis -
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 -
I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.
Taylor Momsen -
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 -
Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.
Adam Peaty -
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
Jack Nicholson
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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 -
Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
Yvonne Craig -
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
Kamala Harris -
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 -
My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.
Benazir Bhutto -
...with Indians there is an unhealthy love of the law...
Anthony Burgess
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Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.
Benjamin Carson -
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
William Ruckelshaus -
I try to eat super clean: No processed sugars, no corn syrups, nothing frozen in a box that you can microwave. If I read the ingredient label and I don't know what something is, I assume it's bad.
Kacy Catanzaro -
Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.
Carine Roitfeld -
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