Janet Fitch Quotes
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a Nobel laureate to a debut blogger. They all get PEN's attention.
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When you’re dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
