Jane Smiley Quotes

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeReligionCityTalkingSurvival

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

Jimmy Haynes

YouBackNothingWatchSitAbout

Marvel is a very streamlined studio.

Joe Russo

MarvelStudioVeryStreamlined

The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.

Andrea Seigel

LifeTimeMomentMy LifeSaidFirst

Nothing wrong about EDM. Great songs came out of it, but there was a period when everything had to have a pace of 128 bpm and be DJ-related.

Max Martin

GreatWrongNothingEverythingOut

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

Tom Hooper

ChildhoodPeopleThinkTraumaPrint

Any game in the World Cup is a tough game. The atmosphere brings a lot out of both teams.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

WorldGameToughOutCupAtmosphere

A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it's important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire family can check in.

Mike Crapo

WorkFamilyPlanImportantContact

Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.

Michael McCaul

PastTerrorismCubaHumanReal

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

Lou Rawls

TimeSoulSpaceLearnEnoughLong

I tried every diet, from living on cabbage soup to fasting to Weight Watchers, and then came the frozen meals and the shakes. I realized that the more I took care of my body, eating what was good for me, then I felt happy and whole.

Ashley Graham

GoodHappyMeEatingSoupCare

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

William Trevor

MotherValueMotherhoodThinkYou

Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

Peter Abrahams

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