Jennifer McMahon Quotes
Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.
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Nothing I like to do pays well.
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When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
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Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
