Jennie Finch Quotes
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
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It is no longer economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest.
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I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
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All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
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What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.
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As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.
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I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.
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Poetry has a peptic presence. Presently.
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In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.
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My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
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There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.
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Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.
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It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
