Janet Malcolm Quotes
The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.Janet Malcolm
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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.
RaeLynn -
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.
Magic Johnson -
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
Ed Asner -
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.
Kate Micucci -
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.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
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.
Safra A. Catz
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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.
Zack Greinke -
I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
Nana Visitor -
I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
L'Wren Scott -
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.
Callan McAuliffe -
I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.
Sally Kirkland -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
Parker Posey -
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.
Octavia E. Butler -
The name of an iron man goes round the world. It takes a long time to forget an iron man.
Carl Sandburg -
The devil take this wrong arithmetic. But never mind.
Karl Marx -
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
Zooey Deschanel -
An anti-abortion conference goer says, 'Well, don't you believe that life begins at inception?' I say, 'No. I believe that life begins when you mind your own fucking business!'
Lea DeLaria
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The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.
Jerry Della Femina -
Be the artist you were born to be.
Robert H. Schuller -
The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.
Chip Conley -
God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.
Marian Wright Edelman -
The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
W. H. Auden -
The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.
Janet Malcolm