Janet Mock Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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I tried to do everything just as I would before any other match, but it was impossible.
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And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
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Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.
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The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.
