Janine di Giovanni Quotes
To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
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People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.
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This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner?
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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It is said that “there is a self,” but “non-self” too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is “neither self nor non-self.” Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha.
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Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!
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To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.
