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Jami Attenberg Quotes

I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me.

Jami Attenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american

Topics

Me Reading Problem Nobody Know

I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'

Jimmy Iovine

Love Step Wait Confident Doing Back

I almost should have a shirt made: 'Jill Soloway has changed my life...' Not only changed my life with the opportunity to play Maura, but the opportunity and the responsibility of playing Maura.

Jeffrey Tambor

Life Opportunity Responsibility Play

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

Tom Hanks

War Parents Growing Up You Earth Up

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

Ruth Rendell

Life Writing Feel My Life Whole

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

Johnny Van Zant

Try Something Artists Many

If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

Dennis Quaid

Career Done Intentional Possible Try

You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

Cory Booker

You Comfort Overcome Convenience

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

Chris Rock

People You Need Tell Critic

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

Colleen Hoover

Story Not Knowing Down I Can Go

I always say horror films are great date movies. In the first twenty minutes, you're going to end up in each other's arms.

Ashley Bell

Great End You Say Movies Horror

My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.

Shawn Mendes

Advice Dream Stop Never Never Stop

We have a lot of really great companies in Canada, and I think there's always been this fear that 'great' in Canada doesn't mean great on a world stage. We need more self-confidence. We are building incredibly good businesses with incredibly good people, being loyal, dedicating themselves to solving important problems.

Tobias Lutke

Good Fear Great People World Think