Jen Lancaster Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
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Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.
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I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.
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Ethics in government has always been important to me.
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The most important thing is not to be dogmatic but flexible and consistent.
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The experience of seeing a surf movie in the 1970s, as a teenager, and the energy in those theatres, was amazing. It was the only way to see people surfing. These guys would go out and make these surf movies and bring them to four-wall theatres. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget.
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I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.
