Jennifer Weiner Quotes
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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I don't read books.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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lf l am not mistaken, the words 'art' and 'artist' did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.
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I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
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In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.
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So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can't do it.' But he's been told his whole life, 'You have to go get 40 if you want to be one of the top dogs.' It's my goal to build a lane where you can be a top dog, and you don't gotta go get that 40. You can go get four and still be a top dog.
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Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
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I'm not in charge of my life.
