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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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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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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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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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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There are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world.
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In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
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That's the whole thing: You only roast the ones you love. That's why I never make fun of the French.
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I can scarcely bid you good-bye, even in a letter. I always made an awkward bow. God bless you!
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If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.
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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.
