Janet Malcolm Quotes

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories.

Janet Malcolm

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• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Important
  • Women
  • She

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • House
  • Small

• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
  • Find
  • Green

• I just want to sit in my room and write books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Write
  • Room

• I can do whatever I want.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Whatever

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Loyalty
  • Bond
  • Royalty

• Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Country
  • Market
  • Marine

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Media

• I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Doing

• I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • People
  • May
  • Parents

• Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • May
  • Space

• It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • Thought
  • Information

• Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • Writing
  • May