Jen Lancaster Quotes
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.
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I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.
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Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
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In this day and age, when there are so many people creating work online and writing their own shows, I wouldn't tell another actor, 'If you can do anything else go do that.' I would tell them to figure out the story they want to tell, to figure out what artists inspire you and why, and then figure out a way you can create that for yourself.
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The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
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Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
