Jay Parini Quotes
As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
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I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.
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I always felt an outsider.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.
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There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.
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Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
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The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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It shews the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that great event, to make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
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I liked it so much, I bought the company
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It's really cool to see how many awesome, badass ladies are out there now just doing their thing and putting their foot down, saying, "Nope. You're not going to tell me I'm doing something women shouldn't be doing." It's a scary time but also I think a really important time. I'm happy to see how much girls are responding to a lot of the other powerful big boys swimming out there right now.
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Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.
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I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.
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As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.
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I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.
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As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
