Jen Sincero Quotes
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.
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There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.
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I fell in love with the science at Merck.
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Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
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For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.
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Talk to strangers. They're never who you think they are at first.
