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.

Janine di Giovanni

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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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• The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

  

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• It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

  

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• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

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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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• People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

  

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• I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

  

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• Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

  

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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.

  

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