Janet Fitch Quotes
I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.
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I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.
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I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.
