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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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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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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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
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Musicians have always adopted Macs.
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My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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I just wanted to live in books and in movies.
