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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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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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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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.
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Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
