Jane Green Quotes
For me, 'Bookends' marks the start of my foray into commercial fiction, away from what has always been thought of as more traditional chick lit - single girl in the city trips around in Manolos looking for Mr. Right.
Quotes to Explore
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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Easy doesn't do it.
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The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
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I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.
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Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.
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For me, 'Bookends' marks the start of my foray into commercial fiction, away from what has always been thought of as more traditional chick lit - single girl in the city trips around in Manolos looking for Mr. Right.
