Jane Smiley Quotes

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race.

Jimmy Iovine

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This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Joe Biden

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I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

Jesse Metcalfe

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In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music.

Melvyn Bragg

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Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

Robert Reich

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If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

Jeb Hensarling

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I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

Amanda Seyfried

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You get down, but you have to pick your teammates up. Good things are eventually going to happen. There's no way around that for your team if you practice well enough.

Stefon Diggs

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If I do want to wear a little bit of makeup, I really like a pink lip. There's one called Lip Mist in Pink Heather from Burberry that I love.

Suki Waterhouse

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Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Tom Hanks

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Not a lot of movies have their own feel.

Robert Ben Garant

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Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

Ronnie Wood

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