Janine di Giovanni Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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I am happy in Paris.
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The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
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Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014.
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It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.
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It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.
