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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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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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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Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
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We believed from the beginning that we could do it. We stuck in there and fought our butts off just to get back where we were and win the ball game.
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Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
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André and I are still best of friends, always have been and always will be. When our 18-year-old son, Seven, started high school, we both agreed to be in the same city, so André is in Dallas all the time, and we're always all together doing something.
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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.
