Jennifer Weiner Quotes
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
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I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.
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In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who open their homes and hearts to people of all colors and creeds, married couples with happy homes and families who live nearby, public servants who put their lives on the line to fight fires in their communities.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
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People pulling 16-hour days on a regular basis are exhausted. They're just too tired to notice that their work has suffered because of it.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.
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I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.
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People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
