Jennifer Gilmore Quotes
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
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I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I'd much rather talk about other things.
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Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book.
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One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.
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My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.
