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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We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.
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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
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Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
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I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.
