Jennifer Weiner Quotes
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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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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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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I always write authors after I read their books. I've been doing it for years. I write a formal letter and send it to them in care of their agent. My mother always taught us to write thank you notes, and if an author puts themselves out there, they like to hear that their book connected with someone.
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I usually play tough guys and stuff like that.
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I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
