Janine di Giovanni Quotes
When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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My faith and my identity as a Muslim - I never saw it as something that made my job harder. It's just an aspect of who I am.
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If I had to name my own sub-genre, I'd probably call it ska-folk because I think that sounds pretty cool, but that's a pretty narrow way to classify what I do as far as I can judge.
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Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.
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My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone.
