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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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!
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Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.
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As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
