Jen Lancaster Quotes
You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I studied Morse code.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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My parents never gave me a nickname. But for my friends, I am everything from 'Nushki' to 'Nusheshwar.'
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In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
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Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, 'Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,-Sleep before Death.'
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The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.
