Jen Lancaster Quotes
No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.
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I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.
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Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.
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You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.
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The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
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No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.
