Jane Smiley Quotes

People are quite frequently eccentric.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleEccentricQuiteFrequently

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Andrew Bird

ScienceWordsInterestingLot

We strongly believe that individual advocates play an important role in developing a civil society.

Max Baucus

SocietyBelievePlayImportantRole

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Anna Quindlen

TrustIgnoranceYourselfIdeasThink

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

Robin Williams

CharacterPeopleInterestingPerson

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

Mike Ferguson

LeaderSpiritualWorldPowerfulLast

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

Michael Nesmith

WorkPastNewTryOldIdea

I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change.

Michael Kors

ChangeGoodWomenThinkLookRules

The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.

Jason Calacanis

Social MediaListeningMediaWill

It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.

Dionne Warwick

LoveStepPeopleListeningGiving

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

Athol Fugard

FamilyAloneDayWritingThinkPlan

Guys say 'like' all the time, and no one notices it.

Phoebe Robinson

TimeSayLikeGuysNotices

Don't get in my personal life.

Timbaland

LifePersonalGetPersonal Life

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