Jennifer McMahon Quotes
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.
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Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
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The soul is subject to dollars.
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You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.
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I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
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A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
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Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.
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I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.
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It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.
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Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
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I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
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My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.
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There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health care problems, but as individuals, most of us can get our kids reading. We can do that.
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I wrote my first short story in third grade.
