Janine di Giovanni Quotes
Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.
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I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
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To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.
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I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.
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We left Germany when I was 11.
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Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.
