Janet Flanner Quotes
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.
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I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
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Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
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Things you believe are baggage in your life.
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Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.
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She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
