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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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I like to see life with its teeth out.
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The best things in life are usually difficult.
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We with Alix MacKenzie had decided we needed further training, and certainly Leach was the one we turned to. So we went to England this summer and we took examples of our work along with us and showed them to Bernard Leach and told him what we were trying to do. And of course he took one look at our work and he said - very quickly he said, "I'm sorry, we're full up," and this was his way of politely saying, you just don't make the cut.
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I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
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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.
