Jennifer Weiner Quotes
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I do know that there is no reason for me to drown myself from sorrow since I haven't yet tried to achieve anything great.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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Money and good life had never been my goal.
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I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
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The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
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I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
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After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
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When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.
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I remember meeting my manager Eamonn for the very first time, and one of the first things he said to me was, 'You're fat. The first thing you need to go is get to a gym.' It was quite a wake-up call. I got a bit angry initially, like, 'The cheek of him', but I'm quite a pragmatic and thick-skinned person, so I just went ahead and joined the gym.
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The moment our daughter was lifted up and we laid eyes on her was incredible.
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I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.
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I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
