Janine di Giovanni Quotes
No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a touch of poetry to a neighbourhood unlikely to evoke tender emotions. He raised his eyes to a roofline bristling with television aerials, lowered them again to windows still blank before the evening lights were lit.
Anita Brookner
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.
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Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.
