Janet Fitch Quotes
My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
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I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
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When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.
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I guess I'm taking for granted how open my parents are.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.
