Janine di Giovanni Quotes
For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
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Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.
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I didn't know a damn thing about style.
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I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
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No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such a big deal any more.
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For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.
