Jennifer Donnelly Quotes
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
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My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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I'm doing what I want to do.
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I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.
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I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.
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There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the curtains in a dark room, and everyone's looking at you.
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What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.
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She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
