Jennifer Weiner Quotes
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.
