Jennifer Weiner Quotes
Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
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I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.
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I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.
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Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few,And those who taste not, yet behold her store,Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore,The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.
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Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
