Jane Smiley Quotes

If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterMoneySeriouslyAnything

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

John Lurie

MusicPlayPaintThingsComeYour

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Ann Richards

TruthDayAmericaEvery DayWant

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

Stan Brakhage

NobodyMoviesMadeLot

As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.

Troian Bellisario

StarsBusinessTeenPeopleMe

Comedy people like other comedy people. People hang out and are friends and do shows together, and when you get something going like a TV show or a movie, you want your friends to be in it and make it funnier. That's just the way it should be.

Rob Huebel

TogetherPeopleComedyFriendsYou

If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have taken guitar lessons.

Ron Dellums

GuitarCelebrityWouldLessonsTaken

I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We've got masses.

Mary Berry

PlantRosesFeelingWithoutGreatest

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Don Henley

GroupRockSoloSuccessfulStones

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Donald Fagen

YouSomethingTransformWorthwhile

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

LifeDreamsSleepLittleStuffMade

America, I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit.

Paz Vega

PeopleBelieveAmericanAmericaHere

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

Nuno Bettencourt

LoveSuccessNeverAnythingSongs

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