Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.
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Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
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Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.
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Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.
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I wish I had more time to write.
