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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• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

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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'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• Pilates is great.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

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• I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.

  

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• I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.

  

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• I take things a little too seriously sometimes.

  

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• I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots.

  

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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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