Jenna McCarthy Quotes
When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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To reduce the risk of a global environmental catastrophe, and to avoid reversing the course of human progress, the world must urgently bend the curve of global emissions away from fossil fuels.
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I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
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I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.
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I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore.
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Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
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When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
