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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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
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Our job is to execute.
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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
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I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.