Jenny Offill Quotes
What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.
Jenny Offill
Quotes to Explore
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
Ralph Baer
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
Taylor Swift
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
Yuna
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On paper, I refuse to position myself as a victim and say, 'Oh, see, this is hard for me, and I'm never going to get any work because they're never gonna look for a half-French, half-Cambodian girl.' I've always said, 'Carry on and work on your job, and at some point, it'll come.'
Elodie Yung
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When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
Lizzie Armitstead
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The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?
Claire Messud
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Jesus knew - knew - that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.
J. D. Salinger
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What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.
Jenny Offill
