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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The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
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When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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Businesses are realizing that an effective loss-prevention program can become a competitive advantage. If a company has a pretax profit rate of 4 percent and cuts shrinkage in half from 2 percent to 1 percent, that represents an increase in profitability of 20 percent.
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I am going to get officers training to deescalate situations, ban racial profiling, and make body cameras available.
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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.
