Janine di Giovanni Quotes
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.
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I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
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I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
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I believe in the jury system.
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Unless above himself he canErect himself, how poor a thing is man!
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My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
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I think perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it’s nice and hot by the fire, there’s something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep.
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Nulli penitus descendere ferrocontigit; alta sedent civilis volnera dextrae.
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Right up until today Pollock her husband and famous painter; died Aug. 1956 well takes a lot of mine time.. ..and while you ask 'How much did it take out of me as a creative artist', I ask simultaneously, 'What did it give?' It is a two-way affair at all times. I would give anything to have someone giving me what I was able to give Pollock.
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You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.
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I'm always doing my best. Maybe people expect more of me, but I'm always doing my best.
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We're at a point right now in our development in this country - setting the immigration issue aside - that you can't ignore the sheer population of us in metropolitan areas all across the country, of how significant Latino-ness is in the United States.
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When the body breaks down, it does not all go at once; it goes piece by piece.
