Jenna Bush Quotes
People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.
Quotes to Explore
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
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My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
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We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.
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People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.
