Jilly Cooper Quotes

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

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• There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

  

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• If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.

  

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• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

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• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  

  Wale
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• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.

  

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• The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.

  

  Natalie Morales
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• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
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• I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

  

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• Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
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• You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

  

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• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
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• It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.

  

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• I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

  

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• With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

  

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• Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

  

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• But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

  

  Jilly Cooper
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