Janet Street-Porter Quotes
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
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I buy way too many books.
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When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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If something is to be quietly powerful, it requires more balance than a film that allows for more freneticism.
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Aly Raisman doesn't have a podcast - but she should!
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.
