Jane Green Quotes
I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've written the final page and switched the computer off.
Quotes to Explore
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I've never been a partier.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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How did they meet? By chance, like everybody … Where did they come from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Do we know where we are going?
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Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.
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I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.
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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
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The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.
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I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've written the final page and switched the computer off.
