Jennifer Weiner Quotes

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

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• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

  

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• Another occupation might have been better.

  

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• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

  

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• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
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• After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
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• Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

  

  Naeem Khan
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• For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
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• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
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• You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

  

  Hafez
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• Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
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• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
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• The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• I like how small you can be on TV.

  

  Indira Varma
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• I always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It's whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.

  

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• Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

  

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• You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues we face: a failing health care system, oil dependency, income stagnation, and climate change.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
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• All I can say is that the Great Barrier Reef is the most vulgar thing I’ve ever seen. It’s one’s worst nightmare, full of frightful loud colours, peacock blues, and impossible oranges all higgledy-piggledy while one’s mask floods.

  

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• There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Nice