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Janis Ian Quotes

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1951

Topics

You Goal Young Little Get Older

I love MTV, and I love the VMAs. There's no award show like it. It really is the coolest award show, hands down.

Love Award Hands Down Show Like

When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old Korean-American me insisted. I wanted Asian girls to see my face. And more than that, I wanted them to see what is possible.

Me Face Back Possible First See

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.

Smell Paper Studio Arty

Bob Dole is not a bitter man. That part is jarring. His life was hard.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Life Man Hard Bitter Part His

Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Team Sister Soccer She Him Out

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

Best Habit Worst Impulsive Very

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

Father Parents Makeup Artist New

Without Deborah Harry, there's no Madonna; there's no Lady Gaga and beyond. There was something that she did that was very new and powerful in pop, and she was responsible for a change in the way the world acted.

Change World Lady Powerful New Way

I did a theater program the summer of my junior year, and that's when I really fell in love with the craft of acting. It became more about the craft and less about being a working actor.

Love Year Acting Summer Actor Craft

There's a lot of other rappers that aren't what they claim to be, and they get a pass because they're black.

Black Pass Because Get Claim Other

Rightfully given near-deity status in the early days of industrial America, the J.P. Morgans, Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts of the world not only ran our country, they were also revered - and often despised - as larger-than-life personalities who could perform feats mere mortals could only dream of.

World America Early Dream Country

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Go Claim Musician

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