Janine di Giovanni Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.
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Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.
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There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'
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I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.
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It had struck me that most people‘s lives unfolded through a constant process of recalibration. Things happen, often unexpectedly, and a person‘s life adjusts to account for them.
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Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
