"I know just enough Japanese to get by……" — Janis Ian
"I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years."
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45 Quotes by Janis Ian
Janis Ian has 45 quotes on this site.
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Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
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I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as…
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I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.
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Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around…
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Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
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Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!
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Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.
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Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.
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Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
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Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.
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I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one…
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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
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