Tama Janowitz Quotes
Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I'm not politically correct.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
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In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.
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Know that TODAY, and each and everyday literally becomes the BEST day of your life, when YOU choose to see that it is. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, it only matters what's going on inside of you.
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Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
