Janet Malcolm Quotes
The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
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You are judged on your last game no matter how many you have banked.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches.
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The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.
