Janine di Giovanni Quotes
In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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If I could jump right from one project, have 2 days to rest, and jump right into the next one, I would.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
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You have to hold onto your fantasy.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.
