Tama Janowitz Quotes

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

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• It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

  

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• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

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• Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

  

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• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

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• It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

  

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• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

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• I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.

  

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• I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

  

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• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

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• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

  

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• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

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• If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

  

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• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

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• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

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• I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

  

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• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

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• Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

  

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• It has been my personal experience that the true flavour, the real fun, the continuous excitement of work lie in the process of doing it rather than in having it over and done with.

  

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• I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Fun
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• My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.

  

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  • Chinese
  • Appreciation
  • Details

• I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
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• I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Been