Janine di Giovanni Quotes
Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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I think human societies tend to be problematic.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music, hanging out with all different kinds of people.
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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
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My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
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I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove.
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Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.
