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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In the epic war over Silicon Valley's intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for intellectual property. He wasn't on the side of the hackers, and he didn't want information to be free.
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I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.
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It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.
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My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.
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I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
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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.
