Janet Fitch Quotes
My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
Iain Duncan Smith
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
Gary Neville
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
Magdalena Frackowiak
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
Gary Coleman
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Walter Winchell
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
Oriana Fallaci
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
Otto Schily
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
Pat Paulsen
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
Sam Brownback
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
Lana Turner
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
Taylor Lautner
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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The weather in England can really darken your spirits.
Claire Forlani
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Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.
Debby Ryan
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This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
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Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
Jill Lepore
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My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.
Janet Fitch