Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
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I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.
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I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
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Everybody wants to be great at something.
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The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
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Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs. Whatsit's love, and her father's, and mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's love, and the twins', and Aunt Beast's. And she had her love for them. But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?
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After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.
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'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
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I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.
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If something scares me then I feel like I have to do it.
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The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.
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I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
