Janet Malcolm Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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My heart is really in building coalitions.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.
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The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.
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I'm a Brad Pitt fan as an actor. I don't necessarily think he's good-looking. If I tell you guys who I think are cute, they're lame people. Like, I think Harry Connick Jr. is so cute. In 'Hope Floats' or 'P.S. I Love You,' isn't he the cutest? Yeah, he is. I think Gerard Butler is 'Oh, my God.'
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If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.
