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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About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
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America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.
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Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.
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For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
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I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker.
