Jane Smiley Quotes

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeKeep GoingYourselfStepYou

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

Michael Connelly

ChangePeopleThinkInternetTalking

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Stanley Kubrick

IdiotYouVillagePityWould

I hit hard, and I hit fast - much faster than Bisping, much harder than Bisping, and I have much better defence than Bisping.

Robert Whittaker

BetterFastHardFasterThanMuch

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

Lorna Luft

MotherMeLovedNeverSheOne Thing

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

Louis Theroux

LifeShameEverythingBeingAlmost

People forget who they are; they always remain with an identity which is not the real self. It is just a projected self which does not exist, but they identify with this projected self appearance.

Lobsang Tenzin

IdentityPeopleSelfAppearanceReal

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

Josephine Baker

LoveDayMenSoulReligionSpeak

Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

FatherParentsPeopleProblemsYoung

The thing is that what you see on Snapchat, that's DJ Khaled. That's Khaled for real. That's Khaled.

DJ Khaled

DJYouRealSeeSnapchatThing

Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.

Boris Johnson

PeopleBelieveTryingNumbersLiving

I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.

Bradley Wiggins

WifeThinkEatBecauseGetStuff

I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.

Alice Temperley

WorkMovingSmallThinkFindOut

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