Janet Malcolm Quotes
The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.
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In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.
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I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
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I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.
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Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.
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I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
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As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
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The name of an iron man goes round the world. It takes a long time to forget an iron man.
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The devil take this wrong arithmetic. But never mind.
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You never tried facing the sting Walking all in circles, take it all in stride Faces are not what they seem, I always dream lost in the tide
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Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.
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The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.
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If you would judge, understand.
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Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.
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The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.
