Jen Lancaster Quotes
Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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Who does not believe in Fate proves that he has not lived.
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There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.
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Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.
