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Jane Smiley Quotes

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Genius Always Daring Lively Specific

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Life Work Wife Me My Life Santa

What other people think about me is not my business.

Business People Me Think About

I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

Trisha Yearwood

Life Famous My Life Living Never

It's better when they laugh, isn't it?

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Energy Comedy Drama Hard Than Much

What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.

Music Culture Think Driving You New

Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Women Struggle Men Think Self Shame

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

Nature Take Just Interested Course

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

Good Great Man Always Well Idea

I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.

Bradley Wiggins

Freedom You Jump Go Know Just

As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.

Bryan Greenberg

Sports Myself People Me Basketball

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

Woman Past Man Writing Present

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