Janet Fitch Quotes
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.
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My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
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A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?
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They talk as if England were not in Europe.
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He's German so he's Herr Ball. Herr Ball. His movies are so bad, cats choke when they hear his name.
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One can never do anything so beautiful as nature.
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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.
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I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.
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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
