Jane Green Quotes
I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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We love to boast that we are a nation of immigrants - and we are. But there's a different sense of America among those who trace their bloodlines back through generations of sacrifice.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.
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I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.
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I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.
