Janet Fitch Quotes
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.
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The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.
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I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
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The thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos, hobbled away, Thetis of the shining breasts Cried out in dismay At what the god had wrought To please her son, the strong Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles Who would not live long.
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That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
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I just wanted to live in books and in movies.
