Jami Attenberg Quotes

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

Jami Attenberg

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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.

Jessica Hagedorn

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I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Mavis Staples

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When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

Matt Prokop

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The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

John Sladek

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When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

Sophie Winkleman

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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Tom Stoppard

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I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the '60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing.

Roger McGuinn

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I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.

Mary Jo White

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As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present with a show like 'Once Upon A Time.' Sometimes we're just collecting dots, and other times we're connecting them, but you know that the dots that are collected will eventually get connected.

Michael Raymond-James

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Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Mitt Romney

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What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I've been a fan of Showtime for a long, long time, and I've been a fan of the shows that it's had on.

Josh Lawson

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