Janet Malcolm Quotes
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Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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I'm a storyteller – that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
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I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
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You never forget where you come from.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
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When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.
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The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
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What is science? yard-measure and scale to philosophy, expert-accountant, bank clerk. What is poetry? miserable, ill-fed, underpaid, unionized labourer, pleased to oblige, grateful for work, flattering himself that poverty makes him an aristocrat.
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I'm (Eugene) probably goin' to be promoted, and it'll be more than twenty bucks you'll get then, you just wait. You'll have enough to live on, Ma (Rose-Anna). You won't have to scrape all your life, the rest of us'll see to that.
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How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
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It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
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‘But you like her, don’t you?’ asked Howarth. ‘You like Mrs Connor?’ For himself, thought Howarth, he did not particularly like Mrs Connor. He desired Mrs Connor, however.
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Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
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I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker.
