Jennifer Weiner Quotes
I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of 'The Wire' in a month, and she was not happy about it.
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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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You grow, we all grow, we're made to grow. You either evolve or disappear.
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Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
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The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.
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Big girls need big diamonds.
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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
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I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.
