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“I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.”
Source : "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011. 
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“Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.”
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“Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.”
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“Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.”
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“No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.”
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“When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.”
Source : "Meet 'Hellcats' Stars Ashley Tisdale & Aly Michalka". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.
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“When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.”
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“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”
