Jennifer Damiano Quotes
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Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.
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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
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I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'
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I'm perpetually lonely.
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I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.
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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
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It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
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Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.
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When choosing vendors for my wedding, I intentionally searched for women who were at the beginning of their own founder journeys.
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Sharpe wanted to be liked by the men under his command. He was tempted to believe that if he was friendly and approachable, reasonable and kind, then his men would follow him more willingly. But kindness was not the wellspring of loyalty and he knew the temptation had to be resisted.
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If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.
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I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.
