Janet Malcolm Quotes
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.
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I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
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Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.
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I've never hidden my sexuality from anyone - my whole life, in fact - and I've been waiting for someone to ask about it in an interview, 'cause it's not something you just blurt out.
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Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.
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I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
