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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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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Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.
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Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the admission of new partners, take place.
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Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
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The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid people.'
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
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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.
