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.
T. J. Miller -
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.
Carli Lloyd -
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.
Gail Simmons -
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
Saint Augustine -
In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
Karen Salmansohn -
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
Salman Rushdie
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
Viktor Yushchenko -
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.
Kate Atkinson -
I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
Eddie Money -
I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
Karen Traviss -
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.
Kate Grenville -
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?
Katha Pollitt
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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.
Nas -
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.
Kate McKinnon -
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.
Hari Kunzru -
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz -
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.
Iris Apfel -
I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
Edmund Phelps
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I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.
Kate Bernheimer -
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.
Elmore Leonard -
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
Bill Watterson -
Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier -
Talk to strangers. They're never who you think they are at first.
Jen Sincero