Janine di Giovanni Quotes

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Poverty

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Summer

• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Good
  • Book
  • Worry

• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Architecture
  • Logic
  • Often

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Only
  • Routine

• I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Believe
  • Oppression

• I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Bike
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Roses

• Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Never
  • Mark
  • Restricted

• Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dreams
  • Paris
  • Everyone

• It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

  

  Kaskade
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Chicago

• I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Years
  • Company
  • Three

• Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Three
  • Ready
  • Settle

• I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Scars

• I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give you some money? Can I get a piece of that?" So, if your concept is good everything else becomes much easier. If your concept is unclear, then everything else is harder

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

  

  John Garfield
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• The busy have no time for tears.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Tears
  • Busy
  • No Time

• I can't live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on 'America's Next Top Model,' they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can't make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Live
  • America
  • Happy

• In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Live
  • Paris