Jane Smiley Quotes

Respect and fear are two different things.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I didn't grow up beautiful.

Jennifer Flavin

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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

John Henry Newman

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When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

Jed S. Rakoff

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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Jeff Bezos

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My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.

Sophie Hannah

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One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.

Tom Shadyac

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Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.

Mary Pilon

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Writing is a great love of mine.

Micky Dolenz

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I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.

Michael Kiwanuka

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And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

Miriam Makeba

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When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

Luke Bryan

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I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.

Johnny Knoxville

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