Jennifer Konner Quotes
I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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To me, I think when women who have children are fighting overseas, that's long distance. And that's very challenging. I really honor those families that do that.
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Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
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I look like that in the morning: my hair's all greasy - it's not, 'Hey, look at the babe of the band!' I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties... it's very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.
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I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them.
