Jennifer Weiner Quotes
I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.
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It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.
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After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.
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At any one particular time, there is something in my life that is suffering as a result of my many responsibilities; most of the time, it's me.
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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
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I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
