"Full disclosure: I went to university as an……" — Janine di Giovanni
"Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world."
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35 Quotes by Janine di Giovanni
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Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
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My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a…
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When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and…
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My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
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I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was…
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and…
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In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.
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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
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I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in…
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I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.
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Africa is a very dangerous place.
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Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring,…
— David Brainerd
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and…
— Eileen Caddy
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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
— Albert Camus
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these…
— Donald Cargill
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
— Thomas Carlyle
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on…
— Oswald Chambers
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