Janet Malcolm Quotes
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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Acting is important to me, but so is the rest of my life, and what I still keep in mind is that the pressure of being successful lasts so short a time.
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Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.
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So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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I'm drawn to the way Havaianas capture playfulness and light-heartedness in their products - there is clearly an element of fun.
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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.