Janet Malcolm Quotes

'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.

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• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Change

• I am always locked in my design studio.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Design
  • Studio
  • Locked

• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Up
  • You
  • Energy

• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Light
  • Problems
  • Darkness

• The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Guitarist
  • Taylor
  • Coleman

• I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Money
  • Space
  • Car

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mind
  • Reading
  • Cool

• If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Music
  • You
  • Vine

• I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.

  

  Edith Head
  • Friend
  • Star
  • Grace Kelly

• Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • May
  • Person

• The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Future
  • Pride
  • Fight

• As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.

  

  Liu Yang
  • Heart
  • Sky
  • Blue

• My father nodded. Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem--for you anyway--is that you're in love with him.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Problem
  • My Father
  • In Love

• This is basically just a free front yard for them.

  

  Billy Mitchell
  • Free
  • Front
  • Basically

• I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Control
  • Hand
  • Quality

• But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Knowledge

• 'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.

  

  Janet Malcolm
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