Janine di Giovanni Quotes
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
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I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
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As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
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I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating.
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Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.
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Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.
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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
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I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.
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It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
