Janet Malcolm Quotes
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!
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If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.
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When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.
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When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.
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The most difficult thing is when you can’t do anything. When you just have to wait.
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The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
