Jenny Packham Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.
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In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
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Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
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I really enjoy the diversity of the people we dress.
