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.Janine di Giovanni
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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.
Forest Whitaker -
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.
Natasha Little -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader -
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch -
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.
Irvine Welsh
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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.
Randeep Hooda -
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
Halle Berry -
I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
Kate Micucci -
Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
Tadashi Yanai -
I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
Gary Carr -
I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
Laura Bell Bundy
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
Damian Lewis -
Polka dots are fabulous.
Yayoi Kusama -
As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.
Gail Carriger -
I write very slowly.
Carla Bley -
Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
Damon Hill -
Collecting is my passion.
Ursula Andress
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I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.
Chrystia Freeland -
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.
Jonathan Safran Foer -
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
Michel Foucault -
I first met Solange at a party for her gorgeous and inspiring website, Saint Heron. I'd already had so many phases of listening exclusively to 2012's 'True' and admired her activism and radiant style.
Tavi Gevinson -
Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.
Helen Keller -
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.
Janine di Giovanni