Jen Lancaster Quotes
If I had kids, I'd probably be way over-protective, researching everything they begged to see to make sure the content was appropriate.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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Kids hate anyone who is different.
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
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With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.
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My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.
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If I had kids, I'd probably be way over-protective, researching everything they begged to see to make sure the content was appropriate.
