Janine di Giovanni Quotes
Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.
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Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.
