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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It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.
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I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
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It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in the 60s here, but when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they're entitled.
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
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The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
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If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
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It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
