Jami Attenberg Quotes

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

Jami Attenberg

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TimeBookThinkYouLookBack

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

Jim Fowler

WorldCountryMoreResourcesNatural

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

Jerry West

MeWillJustGraveTillPut

I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.

Joel Madden

GoodMusicThinkGoalKnowWhatever

I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.

Jennifer Damiano

FamilyWhiteBornUpI Was Born

It's stressful when you run a company.

Jenova Chen

YouRunCompanyStressful

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Maya Rudolph

MotherChildMeQuietWouldLoud

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

Spencer Abraham

GreatStrongElectricityGrowingToo

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

ExperienceMenChildhoodWifeMe

I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like that.

Rose Leslie

FamilyChildhoodAmazingTreesShort

I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'

MaryJanice Davidson

ThinkI CanCopyGoThroughGet

We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.

Mike Crapo

FreedomResponsibilityRealityGifted

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.'

Molly Ivins

GovernmentAttentionRulesOutMost

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