"I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply."

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Jami Attenberg

#Very Deep Quotes

“If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to feel that they should long for the opportunity to go somewhere really smart and wear a beautiful suit, rather than to reject that.”
“And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.”

Source : Paul Hamilton Hayne (1970). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”
“It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.”
“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.”
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
“Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.”
“I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.”
“I would like to work in any country in an interesting project. The country is not so important.”

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