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Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Profession : Writer
Birth : May 17, 1978
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I know that organic farms can be industrial and just as large and impersonal as conventional farms. Sometimes the free-range chickens aren't even allowed outside, and so they cluck-walk packed tight in a dim lit barn. But organic farms use fewer chemicals.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
You can have a value system and be unable to totally live it.
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In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
I think you save things from your past that you don't quite understand, and you put them in a box, and you save them for later until you can unwrap them and try to understand what they meant.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth.
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When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn't have many things, but she is warm, and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
My father was rich and renowned, and later - as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then lived with him for a few years - I saw another, more glamorous world.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Prosciutto should be thin and let light through like stained glass. Even I know that.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
I tried to find a social niche at Harvard - a group, my group - but I was unsuccessful.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Sometimes it's nice of someone to tell you what you smell like.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
In the spring of 1978, when my parents were 23, my mother gave birth to me on their friend Robert's farm in Oregon with the help of two midwives. The labor and delivery took three hours, start to finish.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.
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