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Janet Fitch Quotes

My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 9, 1955

Topics

Father Soul Me Crime Punishment

Catchers just aren't glamorous.

Who's to say I can't find some great work when I'm 55 or 65?

Andie MacDowell

Work Great Find Say Great Work Some

'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.

Fight Win Go Out Something General

And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane.

Michael Chertoff

Start Wolf Ready Say Want Days

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

Family Mother Freedom Patriotism Sit

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

Small Farming Outside Up Town North

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

Life Think Enough You Place Person

I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, 'I'm about to do 'Cyrano.' So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was really against any kind of 'Pinocchio' theater thing. The way that it's described in the play is this disfigurement.

Work Doing Looks Play Said Kind

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

Good Father People Growing Up Church

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Christopher Morley

Beauty Heart Man Secret Answers

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

Football College Theatre Thought Out

To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.'

Strong Brooklyn Say Want Backwards

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