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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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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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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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.
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It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!
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It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.
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We need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country. ... We need law and order in our country.
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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.
