Jen Sincero Quotes
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
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It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.
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I hate when people say, 'He's having too much fun.' I've been in this game since I was 19 years old. Did you see a different Jose Reyes? No. You see the same guy every single day; nothing changes.
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A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.