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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I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
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When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
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The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
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I'm really funny now.
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When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
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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.
