Jennifer Weiner Quotes
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
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The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
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It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.
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I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
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I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.
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If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor.
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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
