Jane Smiley
Related Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good... ELEANOR CATTON JUDY GOLD WES ANDERSON I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife. DAN SHECHTMAN That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my ... MANUEL MOROUN As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving ... P. J. O'ROURKE I love 'Modern Family; I think that is a great show. I don't get to watch tons of TV, but wh... ASHLEY TISDALE STEVE HARVEY GAIL SHEEHY All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. IRWIN SHAW STEVE HARVEY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things li... TERRY ZWIGOFF SIMONE SIGNORET On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going a... AVI ARAD CHARLES HORTON COOLEY I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in m... DREW POMERANZ It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied t... VICTORIA OSTEEN MOBY As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all o... C. J. BOX I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to th... WILL CHASE DOMHNALL GLEESON Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong... DAVID HYDE PIERCE DANNY DEVITO At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I w... HILARY DUFF MARTIN MCGUINNESS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But ... JEFF RAIKES FRANK DEFORD WILL.I.AM TYLER PERRY I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do th... ANNIE POTTS EVE BEST AKSHAY KUMAR SUSANNA KAYSEN ELIAS CANETTI I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My o... MANUEL MOROUN I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writi... EDWARD ST AUBYN WENDY CRAIG ALEX SHOUMATOFF It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them so... MADHURI DIXIT CHARLES BARKLEY CALVIN JOHNSON Jane Heard. ONE 'Jane the Virgin' is one of the most original shows that's been presented in the United ... CHARO ANDRE MALRAUX When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank LIBERACE When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank. LIBERACE I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80. PATRICIA ARQUETTE TONY VISCONTI MARK TWAIN JEFF FOXWORTHY We played them better the last time. My hat's off to them. They scored when they had the chances. We... DON TORDOFF DOLPH ZIGGLER At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do... T.I. HAROLD PRINCE I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX DAVID BOWIE ALEX TABARROK AL SHARPTON ROMA DOWNEY 'Be nice' is my family's basic rule but one that often goes unfollowed in Hollywood. The... JENJI KOHAN ERIC MCCORMACK IYANLA VANZANT I've had dogs all my life. I'm a huge animal lover, especially dogs, so that's one of th... KRISTIAN NAIRN KIM CATTRALL THOMAS SZASZ HARRY STYLES BEVERLY SILLS GEORGE LUCAS JOHN GREEN In the last few years, family travel has exploded. But now families are really going together with n... KATHY SUDEIKIS JOHN BRADSHAW Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster.... DAVE OBEY If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands ... FEDE ALVAREZ ERIC DAVIS Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when... MATTHEW LESKO DAVID MORRISSEY JULIANNE MOORE 'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that sh... ALEC BERG NIGEL HAMILTON ROBERT KENNEDY FAITH HUNTER My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family t... JAMES RODAY DEYTH BANGER In much of the policy debates about fatherhood and marriage, it has been assumed that two-parent fam... JOHNS HOPKINS Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, ... DANNY HUSTON ADAM WEST NANCY WERLIN NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM ANNE LAMOTT RANDALL KENNEDY CARLY SIMON I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get ... JEFF LEMIRE I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm... ALAN KING ROBERT H. SCHULLER We had six, but when my grandfather passed away, they cut them back to four. JASON CHILDERS
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I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an i... TAVIS SMILEY The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change... TAVIS SMILEY SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON Say if you have a high-end Cadillac, you'll pay basic insurance of about $1,200 -- so 10% of that wi... BRIAN SMILEY There are about 1,400 out there right now. BRIAN SMILEY Overall, there's nearly 2,000 inspection stations in the province of Manitoba, they know exactly wha... BRIAN SMILEY If a government safety [inspection] is being carried out, they're expected to follow that handbook, ... BRIAN SMILEY We expected to have five in the finals and five champs. BRIAN SMILEY He has become more of a man. You can see him competing with focused energy. He's going after it like... BRIAN SMILEY It's been a decent year. BRIAN SMILEY That's what we've been looking for. 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JANE MAYER JANE GOODALL I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ... JANE CURTIN Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any... JANE GOODSELL JANE ELLIOT I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve... JANE BADLER JANE PAULEY There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings.... JANE LINDSKOLD THOMAS JANE JANE FONDA JANE HARRISON JANE PORTER JANE SEYMOUR JANE AUSTEN I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889. CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. 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I would love to get married, first of all, from my children's perspective. People don't thin... 
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