Janet Fitch Quotes

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

Janet Fitch

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• I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Myself
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Amazing

• Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Father
  • Night
  • Man

• The cat with gloves catches no mice.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Cat
  • Gloves
  • Mice

• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Government
  • Accounting

• I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • God
  • Need
  • Hell

• I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Live
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Doing
  • Look
  • Now

• When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Fun
  • Relationship
  • Training

• You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Believe
  • Acting
  • Story

• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Absurd

• The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances - that's not a very controversial subject anymore. I think it's something that people on both the Left and the Right probably accept.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Community

• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Sympathy

• We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness, Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last, Is equally converted into palms, Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm, Madame, we are where we began.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Law

• The disconnected impressions which we derive from life form a kind of knowledge ‘in growth,’ as Bacon called it; an over-early and peremptory attempt to digest this knowledge into a system tends, as he suggests, to falsify and distort it.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Growth

• So many car commercials are shot in the Salt Flats, and so much great imagery comes out of that place, but I've never been there, and I'm curious.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Curious
  • Imagery
  • Commercials

• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Him

• I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

  

  Joe Biden
  • America
  • Waiting
  • Partner

• Every relationship stands on its own, and it's successful or not successful for its own reason.

  

  Jordan Rodgers
  • Relationship
  • Reason
  • Successful

• Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

  

  Janet Fitch