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Janet Malcolm Quotes

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1934

Topics

Job Journalist Much Terrain Works

The record industry needs a company like HTC to bring music to the phone.

Music Phone Company Bring Industry

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

People Me Know Want More Anything

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

Myself Simple Words Mind Think Mean

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

Life Integrity Doing Find Way Own

The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: 'Why on earth would you live in Canberra?' Loudly, and in a way they would never use to discuss anywhere else. And they never listen to the answer.

Live You Earth Living Why Way

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Work Best Believe Will Thirties

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

Words Step Me Writing Start Process

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

Bruce Greenwood

Time You Know Animals Want Right

As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic.

Time Ocean Mom Swimming Loved Doing

We want a country. and we will get it, our country.

Country Want Will Get Our

Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400 years of science, right? I mean, in the 18th century, in the 18th century you could become an expert on any field of science in an afternoon by going to a library, if you could find the library, right?

Science Reputation Library Facts You

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

Thomas Peterffy

You Rules Never Bend Little Slope

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