Jennifer Armentrout Quotes
'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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Make a stir-fried rice dish with some cut-up chicken and any vegetables folded into the rice for a 'one pot' meal lunch that has it all - protein, starch and vegetables.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
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Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
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'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.
