Jami Attenberg Quotes

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

Jami Attenberg

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WomenGreatStartBookCriticism

I behave differently in different situations, and I'm slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.

Max Minghella

RainManThinkWeirdKidWhatever

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

Robert Stone

TimeWordsSilenceMeRealityBack

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.

Jeffrey Chiesa

JobLegalDefendRollLawsGeneral

Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it's important, too - and important to other people. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it's merely personally fascinating.

Angela Duckworth

LifeKeep GoingPeopleFeelDoing

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.

John Ralston Saul

GreatPeopleMindWritingBelieve

I think America would do anything through a drive-through.

Stephen Graham Jones

ThinkAmericaThroughAnythingWould

I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer.

Rupi Kaur

MyselfMindMeDreamPossibleFirst

That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.

Mike Simpson

BusinessRedBelieveBetterAmerica

Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Michelle Obama

DecisionsEatUsWhoKidsOur

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

Michelle Williams

DayMeKitchenActionEvery Day

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

Joseph Story

GovernmentPracticeBadExecution

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

Jon Landau

PerfectSoundProductionBeatles

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