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 love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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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 talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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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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My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.
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As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in the church is that people are not willing to do that. People have arrived at a place where they think they have got the answer.
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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
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I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker.
