Janet Flanner Quotes
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.
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I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
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There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.
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I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.
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So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
