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Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1952

Topics

Music Words Sound Write Line Weight

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.

Now Class Up Neighborhood Middle

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

Joy Serenity Hell Heaven Despair

While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.

Life World End Television Understand

Preparing for a stunt is like training for a sporting event.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Training Stunt Event Like Preparing

As an actor, a role can be a great excuse not to be in shape. I mean, you wouldn't want to see the Dude with a six-pack, so you eat that Haagen-Dazs. My weight goes up and down.

Great You Down Want Actor Mean

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

Music Present You Want Director

When I was wrestling, I was 19, I was young.

Young Wrestling

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

Positive Relationship Important Thing

I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

Rain Early Orchestra Everything Some

People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check.

People Enough Know Nice Check Savvy

It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing we can do is confront that to help them navigate it. We can help them say, 'These things are happening. What does that mean for your life?'

Life Best People World Believe Help

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

Father Live Someone Because Prepared

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