Jennifer Johnston Quotes
Look around at the countries of Europe, and you'll find that practically all of them have pasts that are just as tragic as Ireland's, yet the people seem able to find some creative way at moving into the future.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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I like being unconventional.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends.
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Flaubert read too many books, and in consequence some of his own books stagger under the weight of his erudition. He said he'd read some preposterous number of books to prepare for the writing of Salammbô, and you can feel them dragging the novel down. It would have been much better if he'd made it all up.
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Look around at the countries of Europe, and you'll find that practically all of them have pasts that are just as tragic as Ireland's, yet the people seem able to find some creative way at moving into the future.
