Jennifer Granholm Quotes
When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.
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When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.
