Jane Smiley Quotes

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 26, 1949

Topics

FamilyBrotherSisterInteresting

The power is between your ears.The power is in your heart.

Jim Brown

HeartPowerYourBetween

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?

John Bates Clark

PracticeLawResultWorthQuestion

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

Andy Partridge

BetterGetting BetterNowSongwriting

I feel really different from other musicians.

Mary Timony

FeelMusiciansDifferentI Feel

I delivered my son. There were other people with me, but I was actively involved.

Michael Rady

SonPeopleMeInvolvedOtherWere

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

Louise Mensch

PoliticsPeopleBelieveThinkYou

I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect. I'm such a perfectionist that baking is calming for me. I've never burnt anything, thank God.

Julia Michaels

GodDayMeThank GodBakingYou

I wasn't the most well-liked person in Canton. I was a coach's son who played quarterback. It was tough at times.

Josh McDaniels

SonToughPersonCoachQuarterback

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

Jonathan Mostow

PeopleAmazingStoryCarePhilosophy

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

Chiang Kai-shek

AloneDisciplineLawDemocracyTrue

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

Cherry Jones

FocusCreativeBrainPlaySeeGone

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

Brigitte Bardot

WorkI AmRightUngratefulAm

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