Jessica Savitch Quotes
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.
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When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.
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We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.
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I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
