Jan Brett Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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I don't like to look typical.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.
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The only reason I can't recommend heroin to kids is because the effects wear off.
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The whole period seemed to come alive to her sensitive imagination,--the people of the times, substantial and courageous, walked and talked with her. For the first time she was sensing to-day a romance in her own Midwest, a glamour over the lives of her own people. She wished she could hold to her heart the fleeting sensation until she could get pencil and paper. She wished she could catch it and hold it between the covers of a book.
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Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.
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Imagination - that's the future for us.
