Jane Smiley Quotes

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

Joanne Woodward

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My vacations last one hour. Then I get bored, impatient.

Andre Aciman

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When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

Jeff Bridges

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If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

Stefon Harris

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I love mirrors.

Sophia Amoruso

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Nothing comfortable is worth wearing to the Met Ball.

Rita Ora

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Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

Donella Meadows

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Every great story leaves you questioning. If all of the questions are answered, and everything is resolved, it's boring. There's nothing to talk about afterwards.

Chris Zylka

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If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it.

Cornelia Parker

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Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

Chuck Daly

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Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Brendan Fraser

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