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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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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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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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
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I'd never taken a job purely for money - I felt that would kill me - but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you'd better do what you want while you have a chance.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
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There is no such thing as high returns without risk.
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Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
