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Jane Smiley Quotes

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mom Know Grandfather Now Even Aunts

The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.

Parent You Way Stage Ease Every

If having a story that's compelling - you want to know what will happen - is traditional, then ultimately I am a traditionalist. That is what readers care about. It's what I care about as a reader. Now if I can have that along with a strong girding of ideas and some kind of exciting technical forays - then that is just the jackpot.

I Am Ideas Story Strong Care You

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.

Jeremy Clarkson

Children Me Loved Hating Guardian

In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.

Time Be Kind Experience Cake Kind

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

Andy Goldsworthy

Work Energy Leaf Trying Ice Stone

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Survive Write Artists Were Stalin

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

Robert Zemeckis

Television Watch Documentaries

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Future Time Trust Grow Answers Our

I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.

Beautiful Me Crazy World Interesting

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

Girl Looking Guy Being Married

Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.

Time Forward Tax Hand Pay Out

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

Feel Lucky Whatever Working I Feel

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