Jen Lancaster Quotes
There's nothing fun about stuff like estate planning, getting mammograms, or talking to a guy about long term disability insurance, but do it anyway. Trust me, the stress of not having done the above is prematurely aging.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
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We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
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I'm not one of those people who is not looking forward to getting old. I'm happy with my life.
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There's nothing fun about stuff like estate planning, getting mammograms, or talking to a guy about long term disability insurance, but do it anyway. Trust me, the stress of not having done the above is prematurely aging.
