Janet Fitch Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-
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.
-
You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
-
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
-
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
-
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
-
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.
-
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
-
My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
-
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
-
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.
-
If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
-
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
-
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
-
I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
-
Your persistence is your belief in yourself.
-
When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."
-
One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
-
We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.
-
I just wanted to live in books and in movies.
