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Jane Smiley

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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I don't want to sit here and say anything negative about my time there. I think the best thing to sa...
JOE BORCHARD It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
BRION JAMES I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
ELON MUSK The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it i...
PETE GALLEGO If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
PHILIP K. DICK I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired part...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything ab...
BRANDON SANDERSON The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go ...
, FAST COMPANY I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS That's what comedians do, comedians talk a lot. I laugh at it, too. He's never hung out with me. I d...
ERICK DAMPIER I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to...
RON POPE I like to take a day off and enjoy fast food for what it is. I have to say that in New York, I'm...
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on somethi...
DANIEL HUMM That is not the way to become champion. I will just have try my best and drive as fast as I can. The...
KIMI RAIKKONEN Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.
MAGGIE HASSAN If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON Tag is my outlet. In everyday life you usually don't have a chance to say what's on your mind, or yo...
JAMES SCHOLFIELD You cannot do anything unless you allow your passion to motivate you. People may tell you, "you can ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...
PHILIP K. DICK God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
JOEY TALLADINO If there is something I can do to make Picher a better place to live I want to do it. I was born and...
BILL LAKE If I can utilise anything, I'll utilise it.
CANELO ALVAREZ Not if anything to say about it I have
YODA If you can say it... it's obvious.
DEYTH BANGER When you say, "I can't do it!" - You never will.
But, if you say, "I'll give it a try," eventua...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER When I see something, I go for it.
JACKEE HARRY If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA What is worse, I leave it. What can't be understand, I leave it. What is bad, I leave it. What I say...
DEYTH BANGER If I were to say anything to people who have a handicap, it?s? that they can?t allow it to take over...
AUDREY BIERHANS dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER Do it and they will follow
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
JOHN LENNON Is it something that I can work through or is it something that is going to be a problem? ... I'll t...
JASON HANSON We're just not there yet. The issue is how to do it but I will say we'll do it as fast as we can.
FRANK PANKRATZ I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin...
JAMES DURBIN You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a...
ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitt...
JAMES JONES I have never seen anything so terrible in terms of safety. It was just produce, produce, produce.
IGNACIO MORENO I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
VIGGO MORTENSEN I don't think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I'm not sure Eric Hold...
TREY GOWDY Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.

“I don't know. I...
SUZANNE COLLINS You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
BEN WHISHAW Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list...
THOMAS HARRIS This is obviously not something I can do every day. But lately there is such a strong demand for it,...
DANIEL BOULUD Have a robust mindset; dare to move any mountain!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I thought about it every day. It got crazy at the trade deadline, thinking of all the possibilities ...
LASTINGS MILLEDGE I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything i...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you ...
BENICIO DEL TORO Is it safe? I don't know, maybe it is. Is it pure? Who knows what's going on in the body ? is it doi...
GARY WADLER It took some great blocking. I just do anything I can possibly do to make something happen.
DARRELL JONES I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on t...
AMY PURDY For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. I...
ESPERANZA SPALDING What I can say is that I have nothing to do with that and I came here to face my responsibilities,
UGUETH URBINA I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, ...
GARY HUME YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.
CATE BLANCHETT Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say...
MARK MORRIS ...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, creat...
DEYTH BANGER When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitel...
, VLOGBROTHERS, IS COLLEGE WORTH IT?, 08-21-12 It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing pas...
, VLOGBROTHERS, IS COLLEGE WORTH IT?, 08-21-12 Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do som...
PATCH ADAMS It's slowly creeping its way around the globe and the question is, can it come here, will it come he...
EMILY SENAY Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You ca...
CARA DELEVINGNE I lied," I said. ...
"I know it," he said.
"Then do something about it. Do anything, just ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no ma...
GERALDINE PAGE They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in th...
DENNIS WILSON My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anythi...
ALEX TREBEK If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, m...
SABRINA CARPENTER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I can cook anything.
DANIEL HANDLER When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
LANA DEL REY I can foreseen the fulfillment of my the visions.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it'...
JOHN TRAVOLTA My weakness is deep water, structure fishing. It is something I can do and I have had some success f...
JAMES NIGGEMEYER I'm from Mexico, and I've heard some horror stories about cast members who can't stand e...
JAIME CAMIL I'm focusing on learning everything as fast as I can, ... With as much competition as there is here,...
CHAD OWENS I don't even have to say anything to them. They just do it.
BARRY GRAYLING What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagi...
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JANE SEYMOUR I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
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.
CALAMITY JANE I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ...
CALAMITY JANE On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN