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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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
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Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.
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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.
