Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.
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My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I love 'Cheers.' I didn't watch it growing up, but I watched it getting ready to do the first season of 'New Girl.' It bowls me over every time I see it. The romance, the comedy, the performances - every bit of it is just so compelling.
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I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
